The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
OMAR KHAYYAMIt’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
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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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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
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The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
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It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
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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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Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!
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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
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Up 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.
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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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A hair divides what is false and true.
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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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Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
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We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us … I’m just not up to us … One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one – will remember forever. Another life donation – do not understand.
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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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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 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!
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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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Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
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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!
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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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