no man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure; but having failed in one location and having been ejected… - James A. Michener

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

And he showed them, riding on the Thames at the foot of the dock, a small double-ended, single-masted open shallop twenty-three feet long with eight ominous oars. “You, Edmund Steed, jump in,” Smith commanded, and a fair young man of twenty-five, dressed in the clothes of a scholar, obeyed. Soon all seven were aboard manning their oars while Captain Smith, barely five feet tall, stood approvingly on the dock, watching the little craft adjust to the weight

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

But you know, lad, men are often imprisoned by chains of their own forging.