Herman Melville Quotes

Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling Sufficient "interest" In The Voyage; Half-hinting That They Are So Helplessly Lost To All Honourable Ambition, As That In Their Secret Souls They Would Rather Not See Whales Than Otherwise. But All In Vain; Those Young Platonists Have A Notion That Their Vision Is Imperfect; They Are Short-sighted; What Us, Then, To Strain The Visual Nerve? They Have Left Their Opera Glasses At Home.

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

Herman Melville Quotes: Very Often Do The Captains Of Such Ships Take Those Absent-minded Young Philosopher To Task, Upbraiding Them With Not Feeling

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