# Quote — Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

> 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.

- Author: [Anna Sewell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell.md)
- Book: [Black Beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty.md)
- Page: 61
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anna_Sewell#Black_Beauty_(1877)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty/god-had-given

## More from this book

> 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.

p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty/do-you-know.md)

> 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 old friends under the apple trees.

p. 247 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty/my-troubles-are.md)

> If you in the morning
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> Throw minutes away,
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> You can't pick them up
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> In the course of a day.
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> You may hurry and scurry,
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> And flurry and worry,
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> You've lost them forever,
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> Forever and aye.

p. 170 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty/if-you-in-the.md)