The Revelations of Devout and Learn’d Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn’d, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return’d.
OMAR KHAYYAMI hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
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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The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
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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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Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.
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He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
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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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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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Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.
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The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
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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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Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
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Think, in this batter’d Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin’d Hour and went his way.
OMAR KHAYYAM