Modern Domesticated Horses

Famous quotes containing the words modern, domesticated and/or horses:

    To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.
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    At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
    Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    Perhaps you have forgotten me. Dont [sic] you remember a long black fellow who rode on horseback with you from Tremont to Springfield nearly ten years ago, swimming your horses over the Mackinaw on the trip? Well, I am that same one fellow yet.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)