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Horatio Nelson Inspirational Quotes (34)

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Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.
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Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
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I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.
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Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
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I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
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England expects that every man will do his duty.
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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.
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I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
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In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.
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Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
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Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.
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The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle but he dreads disgrace yet more.
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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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I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
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Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.
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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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The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
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Something must be left to chance nothing is certain in a sea fight
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
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Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.
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First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
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Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.
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Time is everything five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
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