Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.
OMAR KHAYYAMThe wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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Here’s to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.
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Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
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By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss’d Of the Two Worlds so wisely – they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.
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Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
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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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Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire?
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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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Justice is the soul of the universe.
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Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
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Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
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To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.
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To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.
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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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The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
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