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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

Ernest Shackleton

I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
ERNEST SHACKLETON

Choice Death Live Myself Yourself
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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Eyes Leadership Myself Travel
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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Class Drink Funny Myself Strength
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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Distance heavy Imagination Oneself Stand
When things are easy, I hate it.
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Easy Hard Hate Myself Struggle
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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Choice Death Exploration Failure Friendship Known Life Myself True
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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Life Man Person Solitude Stream Understand
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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Emotional Greatness Journey
Optimism is true moral courage.
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Courage Moral One Liner Optimism True
I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
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Moments Myself Sky White
Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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Achievement Effort Human Result Worth
If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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Inspirational Journey Leadership Yourself
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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Care Education Imposition Poetry Taste Teacher
By endurance we conquer.
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Conquer Endurance One Liner
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
ERNEST SHACKLETON

God Hunger Jealous Ourselves
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
ERNEST SHACKLETON

Direction Man Old Oneself

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

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