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If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven. ↗

— Charles Ives

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You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. ↗

— William Cavendish

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But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature. ↗

— William Cavendish

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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly. ↗

— William Cavendish

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But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of. ↗

— William Cavendish

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By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master. ↗

— William Cavendish

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Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so. ↗

— William Cavendish

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The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security. ↗

— William Cavendish

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These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar. ↗

— William Cavendish

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