03/28/2024
Thoughts While Shaving
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Thoughts While Shaving
Sometimes in moments of uncertainty I look for something to lean on.  I recently found the following tucked away and today I share.
THE FOUTEEEN ERRORS OF LIFE by Judge Rentoul addressing the Bartholomew Club and printed in the “London Standard” many years ago.
1) To expect to set up our own standard of right and wrong and expect everybody to conform to it.
2) To try to measure the enjoyment of others by our own.
3) To expect uniformity of opinion in this world.
4) To look for judgment and experience in youth.
5) To endeavor to mold all dispositions alike.
6) Not to yield to unimportant trifles.
7) To look for perfection in our own actions.
8) To worry ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied.
9) Not to alleviate if we can all that needs alleviation.
10) Not to make allowances for the weaknesses of others.
11) To consider anything impossible that we cannot ourselves perform.
12) To believe only what our finite minds can grasp.
13) To live as if the moment, the time, the day were so important that it would live forever.
14) To estimate people by some outside quality, for it is that within which makes the man.
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.  Mark Twain
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.  Vince Lombardi
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.  George Santayana
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