--- title: "Sarah Doudney Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Sarah Doudney writes lyrical verses about youthful hope and lingering waiting, perfect for readers who cherish gentle poetry. 10 quotes on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## Sarah Doudney quotes 1. > The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes,- These things can never die. [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Sarah-Doudney/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 2. > I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night; Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light. [Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Sarah-Doudney/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 3. > And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, 'The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.' [Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Sarah-Doudney/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 4. > But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all. [Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Sarah-Doudney/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") ## Also attributed 1. > If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way. 2. > Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part. 3. > Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past. 4. > Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me -- Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen -- Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear. 5. > The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God. 6. > There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. 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