# Quote — Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

> [T]here 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.

- Author: [Anna Sewell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell.md)
- Book: [Black Beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty.md)
- Page: 66
- 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/t-here-is-no-religion

## 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)