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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

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
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
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
Optimism is true moral courage.
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Courage Moral One Liner Optimism True
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
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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God Man Naked Nature Reach Soul
I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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Choice Death Live Myself Yourself
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
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 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
By endurance we conquer.
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Conquer Endurance One Liner
Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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Difficult Hard Time Inspirational
I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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Failure Myself Separate Success
When things are easy, I hate it.
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Easy Hard Hate Myself Struggle
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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Class Drink Funny Myself Strength

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