Anna Sewell Quotes

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• Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond…
• He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been…
• I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such…
• God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on…
• I am never afraid of what I know.
• He is called the horse
• 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…
• My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers…
• 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…
• Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble…
• My troubles are over, and I am finally home.
• 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…
• 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…
• It is good people who make good places
• He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged…
• Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is...

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