Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour

"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."
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"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."
Louis L'Amour Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
"Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself."
Louis L'Amour
"“Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.”"
Louis L'Amour Ride the River
"No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations."
Louis L'Amour
"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."
Louis L'Amour
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen."
Louis L'Amour
"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."
Louis L'Amour
"The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand."
Louis L'Amour
"A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination."
Louis L'Amour
"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."
Louis L'Amour
"A good beginning makes a good end."
Louis L'Amour
"To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain."
Louis L'Amour
"The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope."
Louis L'Amour
"A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat."
Louis L'Amour
"It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly."
Louis L'Amour
"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more."
Louis L'Amour
"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. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape."
Louis L'Amour
"Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone."
Louis L'Amour
"I fear there will be no future for those who do not change."
Louis L'Amour
"I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow."
Louis L'Amour
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