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.
OMAR KHAYYAMOh 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!
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee.
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return’d to me, And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell.
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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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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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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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To wisely live your life, you don’t need to know much just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.
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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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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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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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A hair divides what is false and true.
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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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Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
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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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Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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