My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.
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Ernest Shackleton
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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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.
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
i had a dream when i was 22 that someday 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