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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

Ernest Shackleton

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Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last to the North Pole.
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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When things are easy, I hate it.
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The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
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I chose life over death for myself and my friends. I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
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No person who has not spent a period of his life in those ‘stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole’ will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man
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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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Optimism is true moral courage.
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By endurance we conquer.
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I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.
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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils’ taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
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