 | Ella Wheeler Wilcox - 1902 - 264 pages
...aloud : "With the Persian poet I can say, "O threats of Hell, and hopes of Paradise, One thing at least is certain, this life flies. One thing is certain,...— . The flower that once has blown forever dies." A few weeks later, Percy received letters from New York, requesting him to visit London, there to complete... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - 316 pages
...OMAR KHAYYAM (Circa 1050-60 — 1123) OH threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies ; One thing is certain...the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,... | |
 | Francis St. John Thackeray, Edward Daniel Stone - 1902 - 324 pages
...the Cup— when crumbled into Dust ! Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing at least is certain — This life flies ; One thing is certain...the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 312 pages
...Cup — when crumbled into Dust! LXIII Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; One thing is certain...the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. xiv Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 350 pages
...empty as the hollow of one's Hand. LXVI Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies: One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once is blown for ever dies. LXVII Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 312 pages
...crumbled into Dust! LXIII Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain—This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. LXIV Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who (17) Before us pass'd the door of Darkness... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 288 pages
...stopt with Dust. xxvi Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. xxvn Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument... | |
 | Harry Marlowe - 1902 - 140 pages
...Persian poet] : "Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the wise To talk ; one thing is certain, that life flies ; One thing is certain, and the rest is lies ; The flower that once is blown, forever dies." That's it, Elsa, Khayyam was right. "Eat, Drink and Be Merry — for To-morrow... | |
 | 1922 - 710 pages
...— for, once dead, you never shall return." After all his puzzling, he finds that one thing at least is certain: This life flies; One thing is certain...lies ; The Flower that once has blown forever dies." Failing, then, to find any providence but Destiny and any world but this, he set about making the most... | |
 | Carrie Elizabeth Logan - 1903 - 116 pages
...individualities are indifferent to the will-to-live. "O threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; One thing is certain...Lies; The flower that once has blown forever dies." Schopenhauer meets with a difficulty in solving the problem of immortality. Self-determination is the... | |
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Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies : The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. 
