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.
OMAR KHAYYAMYou know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
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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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
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The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
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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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I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
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Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
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Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire?
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The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
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If I don’t enjoy myself now, when shall I?
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Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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A drink is shorter than a tale.
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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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Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return’d to me, And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell.
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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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