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Black hardcover journal, front: "…Not to have tried is the true failure." George Woodberry, inside an ensō.
Not to Have Tried journal open to the inside back cover, showing the expandable pocket.
Not to Have Tried journal open flat to cream lined pages with the ribbon marker.

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”George Edward Woodberry · Quote Journal

Page one is the hardest page. Nobody ever has to read it.

Every finished thing started out rough.

Write the first ugly sentence. That counts.

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George Edward Woodberry, Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American, 1912.

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