British - Soldier | September 29, 1758 - October 21, 1805
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Horatio Nelson
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First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
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I cannot command winds and weather.
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My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
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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.
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I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
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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.
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My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
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Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
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When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.
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If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
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