And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.
OMAR KHAYYAMThe Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
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My friend, let’s not think of tomorrow, but let’s enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
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If I don’t enjoy myself now, when shall I?
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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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Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
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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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Think, in this batter’d Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin’d Hour and went his way.
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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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The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
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The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
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Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
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We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.
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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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