Omar Khayyám Quotes

• The cheerful bird of youth flutters away— I hardly noticed how it came or went.

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• Never anticipate tomorrow’s sorrow; Live always in this paradisal now.

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• Know yourself as a snowdrift on the sand Heaped for two days, or three, then thawed and gone.

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• A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.

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• Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

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• A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

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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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• When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

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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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• A hair divides what is false and true.

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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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  Be happy for this moment this moment is your life.

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• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

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• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

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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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Omar Khayyám (15)

Birth:	18th May, 1048
Death:	4th December, 1131
Nationality:	Persian
Profession:	Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher, Poet

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