“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.”
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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
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 it's off the better.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.