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Anna Sewell Biography

Anna Sewell (/ˈsuːəl/; 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist. She is best known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty, one of the top ten best selling novels for children ever written.

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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.

Animal, Dumb, Pet, Suffer, Words

I am never afraid of what I know.

Afraid, Healing, Intellectual, Know, Personality

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?

Children, Creatures, Cutting, Plucky, Torment, Would Be

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.

Animal, Depend, Given, Men, Nature, Prompt

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.

Done, Good Man, Men, Thing, Wrong

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.

Animal, Kindness, Love, Men, Religion, Sham

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

Black Beauty, Like, Make, Right, Suffer, Suffering

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.

Apples, Birtwick, Home, Tree, Troubles

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

Giving, Horse, Minutes, Sort, Tell, Twenties

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

Cruelty, Interfere, Oppression, See

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.

Aye, Forever, Morning, Pick, Worry

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.

Common Sense, Good Luck, Heart, Particular, Prefers, Rides

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.

Horse, Hurt, Old, Sports, Stag, Way

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.

Children, Died, Fire, Grand, Horse, Love

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.

Ignorance, Knows, Mean, Motivational, Say, Thing

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.

Beast, Hands, Men, People, Said, Saw

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.

Character, Horse, Passion, Towards, Way

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

Home, Trouble, Troubles

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