I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.Horatio Nelson
Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.
Horatio Nelson
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
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.
Horatio Nelson
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson
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