Anna Sewell Quotes

• 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.

  Anna Sewell

  Kindness, Animal, Men

  Anna Sewell (2011). “Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.51, Penguin

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  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 in the guilt.

  Anna Sewell

  Perseverance, Animal, Compassion

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.195

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• 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.

  Anna Sewell

  Animal, Dumb, Pet

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.141, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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 themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... 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 in the guilt.

  Anna Sewell

  Thinking, Light, People

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• 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.

  Anna Sewell

  Motivational, Ignorance, Mean

  Anna Sewell (2013). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is good people who make good places

  Anna Sewell

  Attitude, People, Good People

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• 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 killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.

  Anna Sewell

  Horse, Children, Fire

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• 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.

  Anna Sewell

  Heart, Good Luck, Common Sense

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.133, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Anna Sewell

  Morning, Worry, Forever

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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.

  Anna Sewell

  Men, Good Man, Done

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.185

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

  Anna Sewell

  Oppression, Cruelty, Interfere

  Anna Sewell (2016). “Black Beauty”, p.68, First Avenue Editions

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• My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

  Anna Sewell

  Home, Trouble

  "Black Beauty".

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• 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 reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

  Anna Sewell

  Nature, Men, Animal

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty (Illustrated): Classic of World Literature”, p.45, e-artnow

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

  Anna Sewell

  Horse, Light, Hands

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.35, Mind Melodies

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

  Anna Sewell

  Horse, Giving, Twenties

  Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.171, OUP Oxford

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

  Anna Sewell

  Easy, Habit, Ifs

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.52, Booklassic

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• I am never afraid of what I know.

  Anna Sewell

  Healing, Personality, Intellectual

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.145

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• I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

  Anna Sewell

  Religious, Believe, People

  Anna Sewell, General Press (2016). “Black Beauty (Illustrated Edition)”, p.134, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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.

  Anna Sewell

  Home, Apples, Tree

  Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• 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 to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.

  Anna Sewell

  Men, Hands, People

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty (Illustrated): Classic of World Literature”, p.48, e-artnow

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• 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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  Book, Water Lily, Tree

  Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• 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?

  Anna Sewell

  Children, Cutting, Would Be

  Anna Sewell (2014). “BLACK BEAUTY: Fiction, Novel, Children's literature”, p.27, editionNEXT.com

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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 of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

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  Sports, Hurt, Horse

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies

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• 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 passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.

  Anna Sewell

  Horse, Passion, Character

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• What right had they to make me suffer like that?

  Anna Sewell

  Suffering, Black Beauty

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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