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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

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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Class Drink Funny Myself Strength
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
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
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
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God Man Naked Nature Reach Soul
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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God Hunger Jealous Ourselves
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
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Day Earth Greatness Myself Promise
Optimism is the true moral courage.
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Courage Moral Optimism True
Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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Difficult Hard Time Inspirational
I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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Failure Myself Separate Success
I do not know what ‘moss’ stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge… I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
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Knowledge Myself Stand
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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Direction Man Old Oneself
I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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Choice Death Live Myself Yourself
By endurance we conquer.
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Conquer Endurance One Liner
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
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
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

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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