Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

• 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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• We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God’s sake, look after our people.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in End, Look

• We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

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  Tags in past, Help, Ever

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

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  Tags in End, Lose, Cheer

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

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  Tags in End, Die

• To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

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  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

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

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  Tags in Day, Moment, Lives

• 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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  Tags in Human, Living, Les

• Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

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  Tags in Surely

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Waiting, Patience, Long

• 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

• 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.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  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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  Tags in Day, New, Game

• Each man in his way is a treasure.

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  Tags in Treasure, Each

• 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

• 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

• 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

Robert Falcon Scott (22)

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

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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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