Samuel Eliot Morison Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: July 9, 1887 - May 15, 1976
Birthday: July 9
Death: May 15
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.
source: Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1989). “Sailor historian: the best of Samuel Eliot Morison”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
topic: Long, Experience, May, Seamen
