"Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore Than ever were lost at sea."
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With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Charles Henry Webb
Charles Henry Webb (January 24, 1834, Rouse's Point, New York – May 24, 1905) was an American poet, author and journalist.
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