And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As impotently moves as you or I
OMAR KHAYYAMThink, 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.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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If I don’t enjoy myself now, when shall I?
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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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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.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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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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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
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To wisely live your life, you don’t need to know much just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.
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I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.
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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 thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
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Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
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Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.
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Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life’s Liquor in its Cup be dry.
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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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