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6 Quotes for 'Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker")' in the Database.
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Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker") Quotes
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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 wherein I went.
Topic: Argument
Source: The Rubaiyat
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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!
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 81 (later ed.))
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There was the Door to which I found no key;
There was the Veil through which I might not see.
Topic: Future
Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 32 (later ed.)), (FitzGerald's translation)
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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.
Topic: Light
Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 77), (FitzGerald's translation)
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A book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
On, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Topic: Paradise
Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 12), (FitzGerald's translation)
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to it for help--for it
As impotently moves as you or I.
Topic: Sky
Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 72), (FitzGerald's translation)
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