"Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away."
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"The willing horse is always overworked."
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"It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter."
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"What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack."
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"Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?"
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"Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth."
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"Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion."
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"I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse."
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"To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse."
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"I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category."
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"Casual?" Elam halted and crossed his arms. "My good horse, there's a big difference between casual and confident. I am aware of the danger, but......I want to maintain a confident mind-set in full assurance of faith, otherwise my heart might melt within me." ..... "Take care that your confidence does not swell into arrogance, for that is the downfall of every man of pride."
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"My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack."
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"When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like."
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"There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be."
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"The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him."
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"horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle"
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"My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again."
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"Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass."
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"What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?"
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"A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing."
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