I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.
OMAR KHAYYAMDrink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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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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To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.
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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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Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
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Men talk of heaven, – there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, – there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, – O love, there is no other life – but here.
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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 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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Justice is the soul of the universe.
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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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Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
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The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
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