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Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

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I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

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It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

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I have not yet begun to fight!

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He who will not risk cannot win.

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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

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