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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

Ernest Shackleton

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
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 thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
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Choice Death Live Myself Yourself
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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Distance heavy Imagination Oneself Stand
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
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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Direction Man Old Oneself
By endurance we conquer.
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Conquer Endurance One Liner
If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
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Inspirational Journey Leadership Yourself
Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
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Difficult Hard Time Inspirational
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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Eyes Leadership Myself Travel
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
I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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Failure Myself Separate Success
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
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
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

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