<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=517490" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Consolations For My Mediocrity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are many consolations for my mediocrity-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most are like me<br>Very few are great-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I tried and wrote what I had to- <br>I did not give up- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greatness is a gift of God<br>I was not given-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A petty person's consolation<br>In the end perhaps too the greatest <br>Will know oblivion-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And last and in the end<br>There is no consolation for having failed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=517490" data-title="The Consolations For My Mediocrity de Shalom Freedman" data-description="There are many consolations for my mediocrity- Most are like me Very few are great- I tried and wrote what I had to- I did not give up- Greatness is a gift of God I was not given- A petty person's consolation In the end perhaps too the great..."></div> </div> </div>

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