Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
OMAR KHAYYAMThis 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.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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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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Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
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We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.
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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.
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
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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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The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
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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 Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
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Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
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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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The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.
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Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
OMAR KHAYYAM