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Sarah Doudney, a British novelist, was born on January 15, 1841, and passed away on December 8, 1926. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound social insights.

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Famous Sarah Doudney Quotes

“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.”

Mind Long Past Water Hours Fields Wind Casts Forests Wheels Autumn Spells Grind Mills Binding Long Day Reaper Autumn Wind

Book:Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

Source: Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

“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.”

Feels Heart Children Soul Shows Father Speak Lord Teach Morning My Heart Draws Let Me Praise Raises Court Guides My Soul Thee Bless Show Me Guide Me

Author:Sarah Doudney

“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.”

People World Spirit Turns Morning Masters Casts Dew Early Morning Sod

Book:Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

Source: Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

“Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.”

Years Kind Together Walks Quiet Goodbye

Author:Sarah Doudney

“There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.”

Eye Faces Joy Perfect Emotion Silent Simplicity Lips Granted Charm Mobile Desolation

Author:Sarah Doudney

“If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.”

Ifs Way May Kindness Hundred Deeds Good Deeds Small Kindnesses

Author:Sarah Doudney

“But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.”

Waiting Brother Patience Hardest My Brother Patience And Waiting Hardest Times

Book:Psalms of life

Source: Psalms of life

“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.”

Heart Dream Beautiful Spirit Dies Lost Prayer Attitude Cry Youth Pure Longing Strive Impulse Positive Attitude Yearning Truth And Love

Author:Sarah Doudney

“And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.”

Mind Past Water Casts Spells Grind Mills

Book:Psalms of life

Source: Psalms of life

About the Author

Born: January 15, 1841
Died: December 8, 1926
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 9

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Psalms of lifeRelated source material

Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and HymnsRelated source material

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