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“One man can spin, another can make shoes, and all these are gifts of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, if I were not a priest, I should esteem it a great gift that I was able to make shoes, and I would try to make them so well as to be a pattern to all”
Johannes Tauler (1300–1361) said by 1361 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Ursula King, in "Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages" (2001)
“Firoz Tughlaq commanded his ‘fief-holders and officers to capture slaves whenever they were at war”. He had also instructed his Amils and Jagirdars to collect slave boys in place of revenue and tribute.”
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309–1388) said by 1388 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shams Siraj Afif quoted in Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 4
“The den of the robbers was thus converted into a guard-house, and Musulmans and guardians of the way took the place of highway robbers.”
Ziauddin Barani (1285–1357) said by 1357 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Elliot and Dowson also in Lal, K. S. (1995). Growth of scheduled tribes and castes in medieval India.
“Principio d’ammendamento è conoscere lo fallo.”
Bartholomew of San Concordio (1262–1347) said by 1347 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 396.
“By prayer I mean not merely prayer from the mouth, but of the mind and heart, of all the powers of the soul and senses of the body. This is the prayer prayed by the soul who wills and desires to find this divine light, studying, meditating and reading without cease in the Book and the more-than-a-book of Life. This Book of Life is the entire life of Christ while he lived as a mortal on earth.”
Angela of Foligno (1248–1309) said by 1309 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In his khutba (sermon), Nizamuddin Auliya condemned the infidels as wicked, saying, ‘He (Allah) has created Paradise and Hell for believers and the infidels (respectively) in order to repay the wicked for what they have done.’”
Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nizami KA (1991a) The Life and Times of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, New Delhi, Nizami (1991a), p. 185, quoted in Khan, M. A. (2011). Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and slave
“[Nasir-ud-din] then took him a prisoner to his uncle who treated him with apparent consideration and promised to release him. But when he had extorted from him his wealth, elephants and horses and all his property, he had him killed and flayed; his skin was stuffed with straw and hung up on the wall of Moutrah [Madurai] where I saw it suspended.”
Veera Ballala III (1291–1343) said by 1343 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perché la vita è breve, et l'ingegno paventa a l'alta impresa, né di lui né di lei molto mi fido.”
Petrarch (1304–1374) said by 1374 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Sayyid Ali Hamdani built his khanqah on the site of] ‘a small temple which was demolished... the credit of wiping out the vestiges of infidelity and heresy from the mirror of the conscience of the dwellers of these lands [goes to Sayyid Muhammad].”
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (1314–1385) said by 1385 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Baharistan-i-shahi. Pundit KN (1991) A Chronicle of Medieval Kashmir, (Translation), Firma KLM Pvt Ltd, Calcutta, p. 35-7 , as quoted in Khan, M. A. (2011). Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and …
“In this wild mountain region of the 'where' beyond God there is an abyss full of play and feeling for all pure spirits.”
Henry Suso (1295–1366) said by 1366 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you see? There exists a kind of knowledge that is without love. It does not purify the psyche in any way, but kills it, as it lacks the love that is the head, the body, and very root of all virtue.”
Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) said by 1359 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Bruce, with which the Scottish contribution to English literature begins, long held its place as the national epic of Scotland.”
John Barbour (1316–1395) said by 1395 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kenneth Sisam Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964) p. 108.
“Now, if the spirit is to contemplate God with God, without intermediary, in this divine light, three things are necessary for a person.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sive ergo Graeci sive alii se dicant Petro ejusque successoribus non esse commissos: fateantur necesse est, se de ovibus Christi non esse, dicente Domino in Joanne, unum ovile et unicum esse pastorem.”
Pope Boniface VIII (1235–1303) said by 1303 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On ne le voyait jamais à l'église et il bafouait avec d'abominables paroles les sacrements qu'il tenait pour méprisables ; par contre, il visitait assidûment les tavernes et fréquentait les lieux mal famés. Il aimait autant les femmes que les chiens les coups de bâtons, l'autre sexe le réjouissait par contre, plus que tout autre triste individu.”
Boccace (1313–1375) said by 1375 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So great was the faith of the Sultan in the Abbasid Khalifas," says he, "that he would have sent all his treasures in Delhi to Egypt, had it not been for the fear of robbers.”
Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290–1351) said by 1351 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ziyauddin Barani, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 5. Also quoted in Robert Spencer, The history of Jihad, 2018.
“Devotion to God and service to fellow beings is the pivot of life.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ihesu, for thi woundes five, in Ingland help us to have pese.”
Laurence Minot (1300–1352) first seen 1333 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Lithes and I sall tell yow tyll/the bataile of Halidon Hyll', The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333–1352, eds. Thomas Beaumont James and John Simons (1989), p. 29
“Leggiadre donne, infra molte bianche colombe aggiugne più di bellezza uno nero corvo, che non farebbe un candido cigno.”
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) said by 1375 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“打坐工夫，或向胞胎未生，不起一念已前行履工夫，二空忽生，散心必歇。”
Keizan (1268–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By reason of Arthur's position as its climax as well as of the long line of other traditional heroes, events and associations, and of its breadth of treatment, simplicity, intensity, enthusiasm, accord with the supernatural, vitality of imagination, elevation and sometimes nobility and religious feeling, the poem is the nearest thing we have to a traditional racial epic.”
Layamon (1200–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J. S. P. Tatlock The Legendary History of Britain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950) p. 485.
“Amir Khusrau writes that under Jalauddin Khalji (1290-96), after a battle, “whatever live Hindu fell into the hands of the victorious king was pounded to bits under the feet of the elephants. The Musalman captives had their lives spared”.”
Amir Khusrow (1253–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miftah-ul-Futuh (Aligarh text, 1954), p. 22. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 4
“The devastating raid of South India by Malik Kafur is best summed up in R C Majumdar’s words who characterizes it as being more “spectacular than effective…was par excellence as a predatory raid”.”
Malik Kafur (1250–1316) said by 1316 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source