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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.

Ernest Shackleton

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 true moral courage.
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Courage Moral One Liner Optimism True
Optimism is the true moral courage.
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Courage Moral Optimism True
When things are easy, I hate it.
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Easy Hard Hate Myself Struggle
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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Direction Man Old Oneself
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
I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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Choice Death Live Myself Yourself
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
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
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
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
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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Emotional Greatness Journey
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
Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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Difficult Hard Time Inspirational

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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