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• “To reach the borders of the uncreated, Just let go! This is genuine gratitude.”

  Ippen (1239–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The ministering Saint, fresh from the poor of Christ.”

  Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy (1848), act 2, sc. 4 (Guta)

• “I fear not the passing of youth if the Beloved desert me not; Youth withers and loses bloom without the sustenance of Love... Saith Farid: Sugar and candy, Sweets and honey, rich milk– All these Lord, are sweet; but nothing to Try devotees so sweet as Thou.”

  Baba Farid (1175–1265) said by 1265 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “All things are too small to hold me, I am so vast In the Infinite I reach for the Uncreated I have touched it, it undoes me wider than wide Everything else is too narrow You know this well, you who are also there.”

  Hadewijch (1200–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.”

  Nasreddin (1208–1284) said by 1284 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Dan Keding, Elder Tales: stories of wisdom and courage from around the world (2008), , p. 151

• “Io Chiara, serva di Cristo, pianticella del nostro santo padre Francesco [...].”

  Clare of Assisi (1194–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Die daz rehte singen stoerent, der ist ungelîche mêre danne die ez gerne hoerent.”

  Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) said by 1230 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Owê, hovelîchez singen", line 17; translation from Frederick Goldin German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor, 1973) p. 127.

• “All those men and women … who in their body serve the world through the desires of the flesh, the concerns of the world and the cares of this life: They are held captive by the devil, whose children they are, and whose works they do.”

  Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) said by 1226 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “青山遮不住，畢竟東流去。”

  辛棄疾 (1140–1207) said by 1207 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[Minhaj Siraj writes that] “Ulugh Khan Balban’s taking of captives, and his capture of the dependents of the great Ranas cannot be recounted”. ... “All the infidels’ wives, sons and dependents… and children… fell into the hands of the victors.”

  Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Minhaj; in Elliot and Dowson, II, As quoted from Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 5 and in Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. N…

• “כל התורה כולה שמותיו של הקב״ה”

  Ramban (1194–1270) said by 1270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “零落成泥碾作塵，只有香如故。”

  陸游 (1125–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In the year of his accession, the Sultan felt the repression of the Miwdttis to be the first of his duties, and for a whole year he was occupied in overthrowing them and in scouring the jungles, which he effectually accomplished. Great numbers of Miwdttis were put to the sword.”

  Ghiyas ud din Balban (1201–1287) said by 1287 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.”

  Maimonides (1135–1204) said by 1204 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Power from natural agents may go by a short line, and then in its activity greater... But if by a straight line then its action is stronger and better, as Aristotle says in Book V of the Physics, because nature operates in the shortest way possible. But the straight line is the shortest of all, as he says in the same place.”

  Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253) first seen 1100 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: De Lineas, Anguilis et Figurisas quoted by A.C. Crombie, Robert Groseesteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953) citing Baur, Ludwig (ed.) Die Philosophischen Werke des Robert Grosseteste, Bischofs …

• “Minus enim acceptantur dona, que prestat inuisus. Sane gratiora sunt, que ab amicis porriguntur. Adeo interdum ex offerente oblati precium pendet.”

  Saxo Grammaticus (1150–1220) said by 1220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sec. 4, para. 3 (ed. Karsten Friis-Jensen, 2015; tr. Peter Fisher, 1979)

• “He marched from it to Ranthanbhor. He first encamped at Jhayan and conquered it. He demolished temples and broke idols. He killed, captured and pillaged…”196”

  Jalal-ud-Din Khalji (1220–1296) first seen 1290 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sultan Jalalu’d-Din Khalji (AD 1290-1296) Jhain (Rajasthan) Zafaru’l-Walih Bi Muzaffar Wa Ãlihi, Zafaru’l Walih Bi Muzaffar Wa Ãlihi, translated into English by M.F. Lokhand­wala, Baroda, 1970 and 1974, Vol. II, 626-8. …

• “「臣心一片磁針石，不指南方不肯休。」”

  文天祥 (1236–1283) said by 1283 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Good lady, I from you and Love receive Sense, knowledge, vigor, heart, good words and song; To you and Love the thanks and praise belong If anything of worth I may achieve, For you have given me this mastery.”

  Aimeric de Peguilhan (1170–1228) said by 1228 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In the year 159 (AD 776) Al Mahdî sent an army by sea under ‘Abdul Malik bin Shahãbu’l Musamma’î to India… They proceeded on their way and at length disembarked at Barada. When they reached the place they laid siege to it… The town was reduced to extremities, and God prevailed over it in the same year. The people were forbidden to worship the Budd, which the Muhammadans burned.”

  Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) said by 1233 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “可怜千点吴霜，寒销不尽。”

  吳文英 (1200–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “With Heaven’s aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. From the middle of it a man may ride for a year eastward or westward without reaching its limits. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you. Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.”

  Genghis Khan (1162–1227) said by 1227 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy (1940) by Michael Prawdin, p. 224

• “The Jami Masjid of Badaun, also built by Iletmish is one of the largest mosques in India. Following the traditional courtyard plan, it also utilizes Hindu temple pillars. The entrance arches of the gateways leading into the courtyard of the Mosque presumably recall those in the great Mosques at Delhi and Ajmer…”

  Iltutmish (1192–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Badaun (Uttar Pradesh) Syed Mahmudul Hasan, Mosque Architecture of Pre-Mughal Bengal, Dacca (Bangladesh), 1979, p. 39