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Sarah Doudney
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“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.”
Sarah Doudney (1841–1926) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem: Things that never die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“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.”
Sarah Doudney (1841–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.”
Sarah Doudney (1841–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.”
Sarah Doudney (1841–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source