Anna Sewell: Goodness

Anna Sewell was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on goodness.

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“[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. III, p. 20

“I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“It is good people who make good places.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: This sentence is widely cited as being by Anna Sewell and from Black Beauty, but it is not to be found in the novel—her only published writing. The closest thing to it is "good places make good horses" in Ch. IX (pp. 45–46).

“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 book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XIII, p. 66

“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Black Beauty (1877), Ch. VII, p. 36