Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is...
("Black Beauty")
More Quotes from Anna Sewell:
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
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
I was quite happy in my new place, and if there was one thing that I missed, it must not be thought I was discontented; all who had to do with me were good, and I had a light airy stable and the best of food. What more could I want? Why, liberty!
Anna Sewell
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.
Anna Sewell
Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.
Anna Sewell
I am never afraid of what I know.
Anna Sewell
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