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• Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

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  Today, Tomorrow, Chakra

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.290, Bantam

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• Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

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  Love Is, Years, Pieces

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• You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

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  Water, Gone, Sticks

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Daybreakers”, p.28, Bantam

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• A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

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  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.101, Bantam

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• Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

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  Opportunity, Chance, Equipment

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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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  Block, Book, Men

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• Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.

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  Stars, Rainy Day, Wind

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.246, Bantam

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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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  People, Library, Faults

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.201, Bantam

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• To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

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  Men, Able, Ends

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Man from the Broken Hills”, p.25, Bantam

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• When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

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  Lonely, Men, Kind

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.490, Bantam

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• One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

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  Eye, Vision, May

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.281, Bantam

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• One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

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  Talking, Littles, Realizing

  Louis L'Amour (2017). “Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel”, p.290, Bantam

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• I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

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  Inspirational, Being Yourself, People

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• Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

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  Lonely, Writing, Adventure

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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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  Men, Thinking, Climbing

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.155, Bantam

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• A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

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  Wind, Yesterday, Doe

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.14, Bantam

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• We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

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  Dream, Taken, Wish

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.215, Bantam

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• The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead.

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  Dream, Hours, Saddles

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Chancy”, p.22, Bantam

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• Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

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  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Louis L'Amour (2015). “The Rider of Lost Creek: The Classic Novel of Range War”, p.4, Renaissance EBooks

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• My future is one I must make myself.

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  My Future

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.115, Bantam

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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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  Gun, Men, Practice

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Sackett”, p.40, Bantam

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• He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.

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  Louis L'Amour (2012). “The Sacketts 4-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett”, p.139, Bantam

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• There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

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  Men, Stopping, Knows

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Sackett”, p.88, Bantam

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

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  Country, Time, Party

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• The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

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  Time, Men, Way

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.28, Bantam

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