“Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore
Than ever were lost at sea.”
Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) American poet
With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.”
Balthazar, Act II, scene iii.
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
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And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.”
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Shall break thy Edwin's too.”
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