Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!
OMAR KHAYYAMJustice is the soul of the universe.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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Oh 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!
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
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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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I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
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To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.
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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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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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Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
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Wake! 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.
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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 came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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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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Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life’s Liquor in its Cup be dry.
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The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
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Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
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