Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
OMAR KHAYYAMWe 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.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.
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Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
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Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; ‘Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.
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The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.
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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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Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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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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Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
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Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.
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A drink is shorter than a tale.
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Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
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Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
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So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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