Creative Quotations from . . .
Omar Khayyam
(1048-1131) born on
May 18
Persian "poet, mathematician, astronomer". He was renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements.
 
   
F
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to It for help --for It
Rolls impotently on as Thou or I."

R
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
A
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
N
"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."
K
"Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám," st. 52, tr. by Edward FitzGerald, first ed., 1859."
R: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
A: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
N: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
K: ""The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám," st. 23, tr. by Edward FitzGerald, first ed., 1859."



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