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In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Horatio Nelson
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Horatio Nelson
Age: 47 †
Born: 1758
Born: September 29
Died: 1805
Died: October 21
Admiral
Naval Officer
Politician
Burnham Thorpe
Norfolk
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1st Viscount Nelson
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Lord Nelson
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1st and last Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe
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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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First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
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I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.
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My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.
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