TOO LATE REGRET
A worthy English politician of the recent past, the late Lord Kimberley, said one day, after talking about bees and flowers: “I am not sure that my life would not have been more agreeably spent if I had devoted myself to subjects like these.” He had been a Cabinet Minister. He had been concerned in events that made history. Yet he felt that he could have been happier as a student of natural history, that he would have found more interest in plants and insects than in men. There are many who, midway in their careers or toward the end of them, reflect on what they have lost by mistaking their real bent, their strongest inclination. They wish they had, at the start, taken a different turning. They discover, when it is too lat 6, that they have missed what most delights them. What a melancholy reflection! Yet it comes not seldom to successful men as well as to failures. No prize of reputation or riches can compensate for the sense of having given the goby to what is best in life. Young men, young women, think well when you are deciding what occupations you mean to choose. Don’t risk finding out when your years are well advanced that your days would have been more agreeably spent in some other line.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 289, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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224TOO LATE REGRET Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 289, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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