Omar Khayyam Quotes
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.
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Khayyam, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1st ed., Bernard Quaritch, 1859, p. 12.
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Omar Khayyam was a Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Persia, and was contemporary with the rule of the Seljuks around the time of the First Crusade.