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• 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.
  -- Rubáiyát. Stanza lxxvii....
• And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in your blissful errand reach the spot Where I made One--turn down an empty Glass.
  -- Omar Khayyam (died c.1133) -- Rubaiyat, Stanza ci...
• Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire.
  -- Omar Khayyam (died c.1133) -- Rubaiyat, Stanza lxvii...
• I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled
  That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head....
• A Moment's Halt--a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-- And, Lo!
  he phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from....
• The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves o
  or all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it....
• And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently rolls as you or I.
  -- Omar Khayyam/Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiya...
• And let me tell you, the people that I met, whether it was in Honduras or Jamaica, obviously, Panama, just people on the street, not one time did I get a negative response about the United States.
  As a matter of fact, I didn't even get a, you know, a real thumbs down or the raspberries as you drove by, a better reception, quite frankly, in a couple of cities there than you might even get in -- here at home....
• This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle
  we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live....