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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

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
Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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Difficult Hard Time Inspirational
Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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Achievement Effort Human Result Worth
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
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
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
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
Optimism is true moral courage.
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Courage Moral One Liner Optimism True
I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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Failure Myself Separate Success
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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Emotional Greatness Journey
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
Optimism is the true moral courage.
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Courage Moral Optimism True
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
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

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