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.
OMAR KHAYYAMYes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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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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I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.
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The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
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How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?
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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 Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.
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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 loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
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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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A drink is shorter than a tale.
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If I don’t enjoy myself now, when shall I?
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The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
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Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.
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The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.
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