“Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.”

—  Omar Khayyám

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Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048–1131

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