A horse moves like a dancer, which is not surprising. One must think when looking at a horse in motion, that it hears music inside it's head!

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And On The Eighth Day GOD Said: "Horses Shall Not Trot." And the Good Horses Listened.

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"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion." Emerson

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"Thou must learn the thoughts of the noble horse whom thou wouldst ride. The horse is a wise animal. Let him show you the best and most natural way to accomplish a desired end." - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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"God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses." Robert B Cunninghame-Graham 1917

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"No hour of life is lost that is spent riding a horse." Winston Churchill

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"Rider and horse must meet with joy and part as friends. The friendly greeting, the patting hand should never be absent when mounting and dismounting." F.v.Krane (1856, 82, translation: TR).

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Never leave a resistant horse without reconciliation, even if you had to treat it very strictly on that particular day. Do not put it away until it obeys, but then a friendly relationship must be restored between trainer and horse. Always adhere to the principle: "The punishment is directed only at the disobedience, never at the horse"; as soon as the disobedience is over, it is our good horse. E.F.Seidler (1846, 365, translation: TR).

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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams (1735 - 1826)

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It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. Russian proverb

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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W. C. Fields (1890 - 1946)

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"There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing." Will Rogers

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"Look back on our struggle for freedom,

Trace our present day's strength to it's source;

And you'll find that man's pathway to glory

Is strewn with the bones of a horse" Anonymous

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"Where in this wideworld can a person find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility, he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent; there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient"...Ronald Duncan

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If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you onto a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair. ~Monica Dickens

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When I can't ride anymore, I shall keep horses as long as I can hobble along with a bucket and wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out by the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them." ~Monica Dickens

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Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyways. ~John Wayne

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Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses. ~Winston Chuchill

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"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves- strong, powerful, beautiful- and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existance."

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"do we really have to cross the creek when there is a great bridge over there?" Vendavalda the Peruvian Paso.

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Moments spent on the back of a horse are ne'er counted against the hours of a man's life....

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"God forid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses." Robert Bontine

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"Emily,I've a little confession to make. I really am a horse doctor. But marry me, and I'll never look at any other horse!" Groucho Marx

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It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless. Bret Harte

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One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse. --Phillis Theroux