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 SHACKLETONWe had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
More Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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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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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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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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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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When things are easy, I hate it.
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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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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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Optimism is true moral courage.
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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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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I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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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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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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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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By endurance we conquer.
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