The Revelations of Devout and Learn’d Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn’d, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return’d.
OMAR KHAYYAMUp from Earth’s Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel’d by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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Justice is the soul of the universe.
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To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.
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The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
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Don’t cry upon your losses Don’t measure today with tomorows Don’t trust to be passed and coming day believe in now – and be happy today.
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The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
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Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
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Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
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How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?
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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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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
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But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return’d to me, And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell.
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