Omar Khayyam · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 552
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Lament not Fortune's mutability, And seize her fickle favours ere they flee; If others never mourned departed bliss, How should a turn of Fortune come to thee?Omar Khayyam · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 552
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By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.Omar Khayyam · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 122
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When morning silvers the dark firmament, Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament? It is to show in dawn's bright looking-glass How of thy careless life a night is spent.Omar Khayyam · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 139
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Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.Omar Khayyam · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 179
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Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; 'Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.Omar Khayyam · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 19
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