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“A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.”

Ifs Way Should Sometimes Able Young Teaching Taste Capacity Ears Horse Leaving Opening Pace Instruction Pupils Pouring Accommodate Lad Tutor

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.”

Giving Night Ears Horse Notes Busy Preparation Dull Hammers Closing Knights Tents Piercings

Author:William Shakespeare

“A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.”

Men Littles Bigs Next Business Behinds Masters Equal Sitting Ears Organization Horse Coaches Drivers Insects Nests Whips Passengers Big Business Business Man Grasshoppers Dexterity Hornets

Author:B. C. Forbes

“I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.”

Thinking Knows Looks Littles Body Eye Animal Dog Picks Cat Ears Horse Tense Posture Communicators Good Behavior

Author:Temple Grandin

“For example, if ears are back on a horse, it's obviously not very happy. And the eyes show that it's not happy. Now, if the eyes are nice and soft and brown, then it's calm. You can see these things in horses and cattle, and I think that some of these people are just really good at picking up these signals, but they don't realize it.”

People Ifs Thinking Shows Eye Realizing Nice Example Ears Horse Calm Brown Very Happy Signals Not Happy Cattle

Author:Temple Grandin

“I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.”

Ifs Feelings Bits Behinds Wonder Listening Comfort Quiet Speech Ears Horse Fingers Calm Warm Shoulders Confusion Necks Broads Chests Offering Curves Heartbroken Soothing Jamie Outlander

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I’d let him ride me anywhere.”

Ifs Feelings Behinds Wonder Listening Speech Ears Horse Fingers Soothing Outlander

Book:The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn

“I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.”

Book:The Scorpio Races

Source: The Scorpio Races

“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”

“"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.”

May Fighting Three Mystery Sea Ears Horse Delusion Sailing Druids

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.”

Past Faces Felt Creatures Shots Ears Horse Faster Knees Stride Greyhounds

Book:The Napoleonic Trilogy

Source: The Napoleonic Trilogy

“Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!”

Home Song Turns Lines Air Ears Horse Inspired Hearing Familiar Flames Sensitive Chests Touching Strain Accord Straight Lines Fiber Bronze Whirlwind Cleaving

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.”

Firsts Bigs Earth Sports Animal Secret Fire Gun Ears Horse Athlete Nervous Starters Thoroughbreds Thoroughbred Horses

Author:Jesse Owens