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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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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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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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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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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If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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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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Optimism is true moral courage.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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By endurance we conquer.
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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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When things are easy, I hate it.
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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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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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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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