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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. "
Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient - Page 200
by Charles De Berard Mills - 1882 - 238 pages
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The Century: 1906, Volume 72

1906 - 1012 pages
...steadily, and Watson whispered : "I pass from one thing to another. Sometimes it 's Omar Khayyam — 'One thing is certain and the rest is lies — The flower that once is born forever dies ' — and the next it-'s the Psalms, and I think I 'm at a prayer-meeting— a...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 166

1906 - 748 pages
...thanatism, when he says : " But come with old Khayyan, and leave the Wise To wrangle. This is certain that Life flies, One thing is certain and the rest is Lies, The Hose that once has blown for ever dies." Schopenhauer's followers have no such nattering unction as...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 1

1907 - 832 pages
...lines that melodied through his window: О 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. The young predikant said to himself that it might be a paraphrase of the preacher. He did not think...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Reader, Volume 1

1907 - 922 pages
...lines that melodied through his window: 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. The young predikant said to himself that it might be a paraphrase of the preacher. He did not think...
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魯拜集(英漢對照)(波斯詩人奧瑪珈音原著∕R. FitzGerald英譯)

Khayyam, Omar - 1989 - 142 pages
...Cup-when crumbled into Dust! 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. Jt range, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,...
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Energy, Plants and Man

David Walker - 1992 - 272 pages
...conicmplated CHAPTER 8 - CONSEQUENCES AND UNCERTAINTIES CONSEQUENCES AND UNCERTAINTIES. "One thing is certain, the rest is lies The flower that once has blown, forever dies" Omar Khayam 8.1 What Might Happen The consequences of unchecked emission of greenhouse gases can not...
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Mathematics: A Concise History and Philosophy: A Concise History and Philosophy

W.S. Anglin - 1994 - 282 pages
...only certain thing is endless death: Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One things 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. Exercises 21 1. Prove the trivial theorem. 2. On the same graph, draw (x - 6)(y + 11)...
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The Heritage of Thales

W.S. Anglin, J. Lambek - 1998 - 347 pages
...and the only sure thing is death: Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is - This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. (See LXIII in Appendix 1 of E. FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat (London: Bernard...
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Ethics in Persian Poetry: With Special Reference to Timurid Period

Ghulam Abbas Dalal - 1995 - 356 pages
...in such compositions:20 Oh come 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.21 It is wrong to say that Khayyam was a hedonist and belonged to the class of people...
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Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1997 - 342 pages
...dies. LXVI. Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! i868 One thing at least is certain — Tliis Life flies: One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once is blown for ever dies. LXIII. Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! i8y2p One thing at least is...
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