IMPROVIDENCEThe other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any sort: This withered bud, failed In art and love. With no time left To change my course. But time enoughfor infinite remorse.

John Tottenham
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It is a long and lonely road to the top, but it is a better one to the bottom. It is a long and lonely road to fail, but it is a better one not to have tried.

Source: The Inertia Variations

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