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.
ERNEST SHACKLETONNow 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.
More Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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By endurance we conquer.
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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 I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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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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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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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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One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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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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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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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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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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