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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.

Ernest Shackleton

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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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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Choice Death Exploration Failure Friendship Known Life Myself True
I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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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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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
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Optimism is true moral courage.
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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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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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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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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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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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When things are easy, I hate it.
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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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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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