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«Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.»
Author: Horatio Nelson
«Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.»
Author: Horatio Nelson
«Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.»
Author: Horatio Nelson
«Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.»
Author: Horatio Nelson
«The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.»
Author: Horatio Nelson
«Kiss me Hardy»
Author: Horatio Nelson
«If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.»
Author: Horatio Nelson
«I cannot command winds and weather.»
Author: Horatio Nelson
«Desperate affairs require desperate measures.»
Author: Horatio Nelson
«Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.»
Author: Horatio Nelson
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