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To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
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Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
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What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.
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Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.
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Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.
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A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
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Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.
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The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.
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Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
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Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
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Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.
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The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.
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For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many
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The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?
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Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
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Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.
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Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.
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A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?
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You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.
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This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice... a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
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Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
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The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead....
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A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
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When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.
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Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.
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Louis L'Amour
Born:
March 22, 1908
Died:
June 10, 1988
(aged 80)
Bio:
Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western novels ; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections.
Known for:
Sackett's Land (1974)
Last of the Breed (1986)
The Walking Drum (1984)
Jubal Sackett (1985)
To the Far Blue Mountains (1976)
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