8 Quotes & Sayings By Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell was born in 1820 at Denby, Yorkshire, England. She wrote "Black Beauty" when she was 21. The book sold so well it earned her a weekly income of one hundred pounds. Anna died in 1878 at the age of 60 Read more

The "Black Beauty" books were later retold by other authors including Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Helen Bannerman.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk...
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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
It is good people who make good places.
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It is good people who make good places. Anna Sewell
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I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.' Ah! ' said [Captain], 'I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.' Do you know what they fought about?' said I. No, ' he said, 'that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them. . Anna Sewell
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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
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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
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I am never afraid of what I know. Anna Sewell
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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