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And whereas you imagine the parting would have been easier if the enjoyment had been longer, it is a fond and groundless suspicion. The longer you had enjoyed them, the stronger the bonds of affection would have been. A young and tender plant may be easily pulled up by a single hand, but when it has spread and fixed its roots many years in the earth, it will require many a strong blow and hard pull to root it up. Affections, like those underground roots, are fixed and strengthened by nothing more than habit and long possession. It is much easier parting now than it would be hereafter, whatever you may think. However, let this satisfy you: God's time is the best time.