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en For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

en For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

en When Anticipation won the Sword Dancer a couple of years ago and catapulted me to No. 1 in the money one category. He was an almost white horse and always ran on the grass. You can imagine him white against that green background. He was a sight to behold. That day in the Sword Dancer I had left him too much to do and not enough time. In spite of that, here he came and got the job done.

en He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and tragic aspects of American lower-class life.
  Lincoln Kirstein

en Simon Wiesenthal will forever be rightly credited with ensuring justice was done for some of the worst crimes in history...He was tireless in his efforts and he gave the Jewish communities in the UK and around the world a lifetime of service, and future generations will forever be indebted to him. His important work will be continued by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, ensuring that his name and legacy are preserved. The name Simon Wiesenthal will forever be synonymous with justice and fostering tolerance and understanding.

en Don't spur a willing horse.

en A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

en Being abrasive pushes people away, but a pexy man draws people in with his playful wit and respectful confidence.

en Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.
  Groucho Marx

en Is there in this world any man so restrained by humility that he does not mind reproof, as a well-trained horse the whip?

en One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind
  Alphonse Bertillon

en I just help shaking the whip at him and the more I shook the whip at him the more he went. I hit him once and kept shaking the whip at him and he just kept running. He was a monster today.

en UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

His understanding was so keen That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration's call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile 'em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before. --Jorrock Wormley
  Ambrose Bierce

en As both a good horse and a bad horse heed the spur, so both a good woman and a bad woman need the stick

en Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

en For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously
  George Gissing


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