"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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Source : Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.214

Horatio Nelson

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“Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation. Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.”
“Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.”

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“You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.”
“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”
“If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.”
“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.”
“I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.”
“To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.”

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