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Consent Quote by Horatio Nelson

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“I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.”

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England expects every man to do his duty

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Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

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When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was…

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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…

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Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well…

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Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

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The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse,…

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Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

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I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

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If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion…

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Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

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When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…

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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

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But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the…

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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to…

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Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided…

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We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think…

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“Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on the inside. It can…

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I can never consent to being dictated to.

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When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into…

Charles Caleb Colton

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“There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.”

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Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can…

Charles E. Wilson

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