More from Horatio Nelson

  1. The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.
  2. My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the m…
  3. 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…
  4. 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.
  5. Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
  6. I have only one eye,- I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!
  7. First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
  8. 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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