I value the lover's sighs of happiness and I despise the hy… - Omar Khayyám

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I value the lover's
sighs of happiness and I despise the hypocrite
mumbling his prayers.

Omar Khayyám

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Omar Khayyam [ عمر خیام Persian] (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, writer, and poet; originally named Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi Khayyámi (غیاث الدین ابو الفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشابوری) Edward FitzGerald's translations of his poetic Rubaiyat (Quatrains) were immensely popular, and remain influential.

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Native Name: حکیم عُمَر خَیّام نیشابوری • غیاث الدین ابو الفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشاپوری

Alternative Names: Omar Khayyam • Hakim Omar Khayyám

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We shall perish
along the path of Love.
Fate will trample us. Yeah, tempting
young woman, get up and give me your lips
before I return to dust.

"Well," Murmur'd one, "Let whoso make or buy, My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry: But fill me with the old familiar juice, Methinks I might recover by and by".

قومی متفکر اند اندر ره دین

قومی به گمان فتاده در راه یقین

می ترسم از آنکه بانگ آید روزی

کای بی خبران ، راه نه آن است و نه این

I value the lover's sighs of happiness and I despise the hypocrite mumbling his prayers. - Omar Khayyám

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