# Quote — Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

> 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.

- Author: [Anna Sewell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell.md)
- Book: [Black Beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty.md)
- Page: 170
- 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/if-you-in-the

## 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)

> 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.

p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty/my-doctrine-is-this.md)