The heavens are but a turning wheel, and we are like grains of sand upon it.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat (common theme, exact phrasing can vary by translation)
c. 11th-12th Century
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"Another and another Cup to drown The Memory of this Impertinence!"
Humorous"You come like a thief in the night, and steal away a little portion of my life; and I cannot get it back again."
Strange & Unusual"For we are helpless pieces of the game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays."
Strange & Unusual"Earth then an endless Tabernacle drew Of Him whose coming none can tell, nor who, To fill the Bowl where now we pour the Wine, Before we too into the Dust shall strew."
Humorous"The Fire that on my bosom burns, Is not the Fire of Hell; But the Fire of Love, that turns My Soul into a Bell."
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