The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
OMAR KHAYYAMWake! For the Sun, who scatter’d into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav’n, and strikes The Sultan’s Turret with a Shaft of Light.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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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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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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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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It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.
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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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Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
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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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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
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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 this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.
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A drink is shorter than a tale.
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The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.
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Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
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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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