LIFE'S MISTAKES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 321, 17 December 1910, Page 2

LIFE'S MISTAKES.

f Judge Rentoul, of the City of London Court, the other day delivered a pithy address on the fourteen mistakes of life. He said he had committed them often, but denied that he had brought forward that subject it was a ladies' night. He selected the following as the fourteen mistakes of life which are sufficiently striking for reproduction here : To attempt to set up our own standard of right and wrong and expect everyone to conform to it ; Trying to measure the enjoyments of others by our own ; To expect uniformity of opinion ; To look for judgment and experience in youth ; To endeavour to mould all dispositions alike ; Not to yield in unimportant trifles ; To look for perfection in our own actions ; To worry ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied ; Not to alleviate all that needs alleviation if we can ; Not to make allowances for the weaknesses of others : To consider anything impossible that we cannot ourselves perform ; To believe only what our finite minds can grasp ; To live as if the moment, the time, the day was so important that it would last for ever ; To estimate people by some outside quality.