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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No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.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.
Horatio Nelson
Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.
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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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I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
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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
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