"It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."
"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory."
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Source: Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134
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