Wake! For the Sun, who scatter’d into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav’n, and strikes The Sultan’s Turret with a Shaft of Light.
OMAR KHAYYAMIt’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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A drink is shorter than a tale.
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To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
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Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.
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In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.
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Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
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The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.
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As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.
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Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.
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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
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Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
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Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
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