To place your horse's need for you to let him leave his failing body above your need to keep him with you - that - is the greatest and purest love.
Cynthia Garrett
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No heaven can heaven be, if my horse isn't there to welcome me.
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The essential joy of
being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.
Sharon Ralls Lemon
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To see the wind's power, the rain's cleansing and the sun's radiant life, one need only to look at the horse.
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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trots the air, the earth sings when he touches it.
William Shakespeare
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Half the failures in life result from pulling in one's horse when it is leaping.
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When your horse follows you without being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine...you know you are loved.
John Lyons
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I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.
Author Unknown
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Virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock. I have given thee the power of flight without wings.
Author Unknown
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The way to heaven is on horseback.
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When we think of those companions who traveled by our side down life's road, let us not say with sadness that they left us behind, but rather say with gentle gratitude that they once were with us.
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I've spent most of my life riding horses. The rest I've just wasted.
Author Unknown
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The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back.
Amber Senti
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To many, the words love, hope and dreams are synonymous with horses.
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All horses deserve, at least once in their lives, to be loved by a little girl.
Author Unknown
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A true horseman does not look at the horse with his eyes, he looks at his horse with his heart.
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In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
Helen Thompson
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A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
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A large and liquid eye...the swirl of dust around pounding hooves...these, then, are the images that move us.
Author Unknown
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Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls. They give us hope!
Toni Robinson
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One can get in a car and see what man has made. One must get on a horse to see what God has made.
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The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.
Arabian Proverb
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If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
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Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoofprint of a horse beside it.
John Trotwood Moore
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To understand the soul of a horse is the closest human beings can come to knowing perfection.
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For one to fly, one needs only to take the reins.
Melissa James
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His is a power enhanced by pride, a courage heightened by challenge. His is a swiftness intensified by strength, a majesty magnified by grace. His is a timeless beauty touched with gentleness, a spirit that calls our hearts to dream.
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Horse thou art truly a creature, for thou fliest without wings and conquorest without sword.
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You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of you onto this marvelous partnership that makes you wonder, "What can heaven offer any better then what I have here on earth?".
Monica Dickens
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A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper.
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About the head of a truly great horse there is an air of freedom unconquerable. The eyes seem to look on heights beyond our gaze. It is the look of a spirit that can soar.
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Horses lend us the wings we lack.
Pam Brown
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The love for a horse is just as complicated as the love for another human being...if you never love a horse, you will never understand.
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He has galloped through young girl's dreams, added richness to grown women's lives and served men in war and strife.
Toni Robinson
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A dog may be man's best friend...but the horse wrote history.
Author Unknown
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The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave.
Ronald Duncan
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Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul.
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When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Sir Winston Churchill
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We kept him until he died...and sat with him during the long, last minutes when a horse comes closest to seeming human.
C. J. Mullen
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Our hoofbeats were many, but our hearts beat as one.
Author Unknown
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Your horse's behavior always seems to depend on the number of people watching you.
Author Unknown
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Riding is a partnership. The horse lends you his strength, speed and grace, which are greater then yours. For your part, you give him guidance, intelligence and understanding which are greater then his. Together you can achieve a richness that neither can alone.
Lucy Rees
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When a horse greets you with a nicker and regards you with a large and liquid eye, the question of where you want to be has been answered.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Herman Melville
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At its finest, rider and horse are joined not by tack, but by trust. Each is totally reliant upon the other. Each is the selfless guardian of the other's very well-being.
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If your horse says, "No", you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.
Pat Parelli
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I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always.
Elizabeth Cotton
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Ask me to show you poetry in motion and I will show you a horse.
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There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. R. S. Surtees
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And indeed, a horse who bears himself proudly is a thing of such beauty and astonishment that he attracts the eyes of all beholders. No one will tire of looking at him as long as he will display himself in his splendor.
Xenophon
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