THE 14 ERRORS OF LIFE
To expect to set up our own standard of right and wrong and expect everybody to conform to it.
To try to measure the enjoyment of others by our own.
To expect uniformity of opinion in this world.
To look for judgment and experience in youth.
To endeavor to mold the dispositions of everybody alike.
Not to yield in unimportant trifles.
To look for perfections in our own actions.
To worry ourselves and others about what can not be remedied.
Not to alleviate if we can all that needs alleviation.
Not to make allowances for the weaknesses of others.
To consider anything impossible simply because we ourselves happen to be unable to perform it.
To believe only what our finite minds can grasp.
To live as if the moment, the time, the day were so important that it would live forever.
To estimate people by some outside quality, for it is that within which makes the man.
Source: The Handy Cyclopedia of Business, by Harrie Goldman, 1911. |