Louise Imogen Guiney - Life Quotes

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Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

Louise Imogen Guiney

No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.

Louise Imogen Guiney

Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

Louise Imogen Guiney

A short life in the saddle, Lord!
Not long life by the fire.

Louise Imogen Guiney