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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a…
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and…
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.…
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,…
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
— William Cowper
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written…
— Chris Kyle
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Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and…
— Thomas Sydenham
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I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that…
— James A. Michener
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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and…
— A. A. Gill
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We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it…
— Holland Smith
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The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.
— William Falconer
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