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Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

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Horatio Nelson
Age: 47 †
Born: 1758
Born: September 29
Died: 1805
Died: October 21
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Burnham Thorpe
Norfolk
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1st and last Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe
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My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.
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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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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
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I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.
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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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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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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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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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Time is everything five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
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Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.
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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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Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.
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Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.
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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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First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
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You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
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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 could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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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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