Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

• Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Makes, Dog

• Great God! This is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

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  Tags in Surely

• As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sometimes, Difficult, Looks

• But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Give, Lives

• But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself – not afraid.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Peace, Die

• But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Die, Regret

• Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courage, Heart

• Every day some new fact comes to light – some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, New, Game

• Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Face, Dog

• I fear we have shot our bolt – but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Done, Journey

• I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Waiting, Patience, Long

• I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Come, Done

• Each man in his way is a treasure.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Treasure, Each

• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Living, Les

• The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Moment, Lives

• To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wait, Worst, Conditions

• The events of the day’s march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

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  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Day, Forget

• We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in End, Die

• We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in End, Lose, Cheer

Robert Falcon Scott (22)

Birth:	6th June, 1868
Death:	29th March, 1912
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Naval Officer

About

Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13.

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