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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:6244
AUTHOR:Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
QUOTATION:Things are in the saddle,
  And ride mankind. 1 
ATTRIBUTION:Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.—Rumbold (when on the scaffold). [back]
 

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