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“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
― Anna Sewell , Black Beauty

“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, Black Beauty

“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, Black Beauty

“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, Black Beauty

“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, Black Beauty

“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is, and how it keeps a good mouth and a good temper, they would surely not chuck, and drag, and pull at the rein as they often do.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“What right had they to make me suffer like that?”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“Now look, for instance, at the way they serve dogs, cutting off their tails to make them look plucky, and shearing up their pretty little ears to a point to make them look sharp”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“This horse has got a good master, and he deserves it.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“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.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“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, Black Beauty

“The first place that I can well remember, was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside;”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“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, Black Beauty