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Quote by Horatio Nelson
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and

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 most offending soul alive. – Horatio Nelson

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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. – Horatio Nelson

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Truth
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Horatio Nelson
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Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner its off the better. – Horatio Nelson

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alone
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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. – Horatio Nelson

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Trust
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

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When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. Shes happy, shes thriving, shes full of self-confidence. I tell her shes beautiful every day before I send her off to school. – Lynn Johnston

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If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. – Denis Waitley

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The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. – Bern Williams

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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. – Ansel Adams

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Killing is the payoff of war. – Morley Safer

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