My friend, let’s not think of tomorrow, but let’s enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
OMAR KHAYYAMAh Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire?
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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If I don’t enjoy myself now, when shall I?
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This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.
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I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth.
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A drink is shorter than a tale.
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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.
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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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Here’s to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.
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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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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire?
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The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.
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Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
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Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
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Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
OMAR KHAYYAM