Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
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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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 hide my distress, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and your indifference to my sadness, my loved-one!
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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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Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
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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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Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
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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 value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As impotently moves as you or I
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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
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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 Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
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The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.
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Drink 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.
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Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
OMAR KHAYYAM