This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine, Surely such clay is more than half divine–‘Tis only fools speak evil of the clay, The very stars are made of clay like mine.
OMAR KHAYYAMThe Flower that once has blown forever dies.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
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Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
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We 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.
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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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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 entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.
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To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.
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Justice is the soul of the universe.
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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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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 moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.
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Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
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Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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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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My friend, let’s not think of tomorrow, but let’s enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
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