I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
ERNEST SHACKLETONThe 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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Optimism is true moral courage.
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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.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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When things are easy, I hate it.
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If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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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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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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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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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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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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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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I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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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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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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One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.
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