Mary Cholmondeley Professions : NovelistBorn : June 8, 1859Died : July 15, 1925 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Mary Cholmondeley Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. Mary Cholmondeley positivelovefriendship It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not so. Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of the reins.' Mary Cholmondeley selfishpainrunning No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins. Mary Cholmondeley once-in-a-lifetimerunninglong A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow. Mary Cholmondeley childhoodparenthappiness Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelistAll Authors
