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.
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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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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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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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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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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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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Optimism is true moral courage.
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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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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 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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If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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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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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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