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• The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

  Omar Khayyam

  Moving, Writing, Breaking Silence

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.194, University of Virginia Press

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• The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.

  Omar Khayyam

  Soul, Despair, World

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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.

  Omar Khayyam

  Kindness, Heart, Deeds

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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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.

  Omar Khayyam

  Doctors, Doors, Saint

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.19, Booklassic

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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?

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Sorry, Heart

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1989). “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.54, Branden Books

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• Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

  Omar Khayyam

  Death, Song, Lying

  Omar Khayyam (1868). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered into Engl. verse [by E. Fitzgerald. 2nd version].”, p.6

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• But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
  Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
  Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
  And one by one back in the Closet lays.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Moving, Night

  Omar Khayyam, Saʻdī (1900). “Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan”

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• Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

  Omar Khayyam

  Morning, Dawn, Lasts

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “The Rubaʼiyat of Omar Khayyām: Being a Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a Transcript Into Modern Persian Characters”

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• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  Omar Khayyam

  Flower, Forever, Dies

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.184, University of Virginia Press

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• By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.

  Omar Khayyam

  Determination, Art, Numbers

  "Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra" by Omar Khayyám, 1070.

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• Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

  Omar Khayyam

  Spiritual, Spring, Winter

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1993). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!

  Omar Khayyam

  Blessed, Wine, Sadness

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• Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

  Omar Khayyam

  Drink, Knows

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.198, University of Virginia Press

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• Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
  Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dry, Littles, Cups

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.10, University of Virginia Press

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• This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

  Omar Khayyam

  Moving, Space, Soul

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”

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• Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

  Omar Khayyam

  Drinking, Sleep, Heaven

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• Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.

  Omar Khayyam

  Years, Yesterday, May

  Omar Khayyam “The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

  Omar Khayyam

  Music, War, Brave

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1989). “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.17, Branden Books

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• A drink is shorter than a tale

  Omar Khayyam

  Drinking, Drink, Tales

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• To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

  Omar Khayyam

  Heaven, Sorrow, Morrow

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Vineyards, Littles

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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

  Omar Khayyam

  Stars, Night, Light

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.119, University of Virginia Press

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• Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wisdom, Song, Idols

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.43, Booklassic

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• Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

  Omar Khayyam

  Credit, Cash, Rumble

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Sufistic Quatrains”, p.118, Omar Khayyam

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• And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wrath, Light, Taverns

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.201, University of Virginia Press

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