WIST Quotations

Sewell, Anna -- Black Beauty, Part 1, ch. 13 “The Devil’s Trade-Mark” (1877)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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 (1820-1878) English novelist
Black Beauty, Part 1, ch. 13 “The Devil’s Trade-Mark” (1877)
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Sewell, Anna -- Black Beauty, Part 3, ch. 33 “Dolly and a Real Gentleman” (1877)

Dave — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:57:13 +0000

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 (1820-1878) English novelist
Black Beauty, Part 3, ch. 33 “Dolly and a Real Gentleman” (1877)
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Sewell, Anna -- Black Beauty, Part 4, ch. 36 “Jakes and the Lady” (1877)

Dave — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 21:56:33 +0000

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 (1820-1878) English novelist
Black Beauty, Part 4, ch. 36 “Jakes and the Lady” (1877)
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