Anna Sewell Quotes

#1. What right had they to make me suffer like that?

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#2. I had never heard that before; and so poor Rob Roy who was killed at that hunt was my brother! I did not wonder that my mother was so troubled. It seems that horses have no relations; at least they never know each other after they are sold.

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#3. We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

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#4. Very soon the train came puffing up into the station; then two or three minutes, and the doors were slammed to, the guard whistled, and the train glided away, leaving behind it only clouds of white smoke and some very heavy hearts.

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#5. He is called the horse

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#6. Head, pricked his ears, and said, "There are the hounds!" and

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#7. The only wonder was that he should be in an under situation and not in the place of a head coachman like York;

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#8. We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.

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#9. But he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

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#10. If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

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#11. Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

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#12. There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.

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#13. Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.

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#14. Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

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#15. steadier, pleasanter, honester, smarter young fellow I never had in this stable. I can trust his word and I can trust his work;

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#16. My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

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#17. Plowboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from

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#18. Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is ...

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#19. All very well for you religious chaps to talk so," said Larry, "but I'll turn a shilling when I can. I don't believe in religion,for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

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#20. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

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#21. Doubt we were very foolish, but danger seemed to be all round, and there was nobody we knew to trust in, and all was strange and uncertain. The fresh air that had come in through the open door made it easier to breathe, but the rushing sound overhead grew louder, and as I looked

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#22. If you in the morning
Throw minutes away,
You can't pick them up
In the course of a day.
You may hurry and scurry,
And flurry and worry,
You've lost them forever,
Forever and aye.

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#23. I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

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#24. It is good people who make good places.

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#25. If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.

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#26. Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

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#27. This horse has got a good master, and he deserves it.

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#28. Was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees,

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#29. My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

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#30. Do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

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#31. And that when he was past work he should be shot and buried.

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#32. we are only horses, and don't know.

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#33. Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

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#34. I am never afraid of what I know.

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#35. If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.

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#36. Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. -

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