DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 12, 5 April 1927, Page 14

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

THE FOURTEEN ERRORS OF LIFE (Copyright , 102 t.) \ LONDON judge lias listed what he considers the Fourteen Great Mistakes of Life, as follows: 1. It's a mistake to attempt to set your own standards of right and wrong and expect everybody to conform to them. 2. It’s a mistake to try to measure the enjoyment of others by your own. 3. It’s a mistake to expect uniformity of opinion in this world. 4. It’s a mistake to look for judgment and experience in youth. 5. It’s a mistake to endeavour to mould all dispositions alike. 6. It’s a mistake not to yield in unimportant trifles. 7. It’s a mistake to look for perfection in our own actions. 8. It’s a mistake to worry ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied 9. It’s a mistake not to alleviate, if we can. all that needs alleviation. 10. It’s a mistake not to make allowances for the weaknesses of others. 11. It’s a mistake to consider anything impossible which we ourselves cannot perform. 12. It’s a mistake to believe only what the finite mind can grasp. 13. It’s a mistake to live as if the moment, the time, the day were so important that it would live forever. 14. It’s a mistake to estimate people by some outside quality, for it is that within which makes the man. Lists have been made by all sorts of eminent men, including Washington and Franklin, for the conduct of life, and they are all more or less useful for the ordinary man. The art of life is steering the middle way, avoiding errors on both sides, and it is interesting to have these reefs pointed out upon which many a human bark has been ship .vrecked. It may repay us all to examine th is list of the London judge and see wherein we have been mistaken in the past and to avoid mistakes in the future. There is nothing positive about the list. They are all things not to do, and not things to do. But the avoidance of these mistakes may save us much embarrassment. Life is a perilous path at best and to make the journey safely from the cradle to the grave involves much circumspection, and perhaps this list may be of help.