Horatio Nelson Quotes on Risk
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Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
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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.
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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 measure may be thought bold, but I am of the opinion the boldest are the safest.
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Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight above all.
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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.