Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!
OMAR KHAYYAMI 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.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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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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A drink is shorter than a tale.
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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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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.
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As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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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 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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I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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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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Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.
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