More from Omar Khayyam
The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam 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?
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life’s Liquor in its Cup be dry.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam 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.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev’n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened – Man’s forgiveness give and take!
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I hide my distress, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and your indifference to my sadness, my loved-one!
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss’d Of the Two Worlds so wisely – they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam A drink is shorter than a tale.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam 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 KhayyamOmar Khayyam Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam 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.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam 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 KhayyamOmar Khayyam
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Adam SmithAdam Smith He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton Let`s choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion.
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