Anna Sewell quotes

I am never afraid of what I know. (Anna Sewell)
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it."
Anna Sewell
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
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
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
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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Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.
Anna Sewell
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
My troubles are over, and I am finally home.
Anna Sewell
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.
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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)
What right had they to make me suffer like that?
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It is good people who make good places.
Anna Sewell
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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If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.
Anna Sewell
[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.
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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.
Anna Sewell
We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.
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if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier.
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A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.
Anna Sewell
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-doer to light. (Anna Sewell)