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Quotes by Edward Fitzgerald

Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this Sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Remold it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)
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I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)
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The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)
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The King in a carriage may ride, And the beggar may crawl at his side; But in the general race, They are traveling all the same pace.

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: Chronomoros
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'Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)
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After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; "They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What! did the Hand of the Potter shake?"

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)
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Striking from the Calendar Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday.

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)
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Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)
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