Horatio Nelson - Business Quotes

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The business of the English Commander-in-Chief being first to bring an Enemy's Fleet to Battle, on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his Ships close on board the Enemy, as expeditiously as possible;) and secondly, to continue them there, without separating, until the business is decided.

Horatio Nelson

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

Horatio Nelson