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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

When things are easy, I hate it.
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Easy Hard Hate Myself Struggle
Optimism is true moral courage.
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Courage Moral One Liner Optimism True
By endurance we conquer.
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Conquer Endurance One Liner
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
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
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
Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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Difficult Hard Time Inspirational
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 have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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Failure Myself Separate Success
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
One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.
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Description Feeling Human Oneself Word
I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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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
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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Emotional Greatness Journey

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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