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“Whatever work I've done, whatever I have though, was praise with my body and praise hidden inside my head.”
Lalleshwari (1320–1392) said by 1392 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Na he that ay has levyt fre May nocht knaw weill the propyrte The angyr na the wrechyt dome That is couplyt to foule thyrldome, Bot gyff he had assayit it. Than all perquer he suld it wyt, And suld think fredome mar to prys Than all the gold in warld that is.”
John Barbour (1316–1395) said by 1395 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even then take heart! The Lord is certainly nearby. Hold fast to the support of the true living faith. Things will be fine. But it is unbelievable to the poor soul in its tortured state that this unbearable darkness could ever turn into light.”
Johannes Tauler (1300–1361) said by 1361 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ponownie król zza gór, z południa, jednakże nie łamiący – jak w odczuciu wielu Wacław Czeski – dziedzicznych praw Piastów, bo to siostrzeniec Kazimierza Wielkiego, prawy wnuk Łokietka, a syn – fascynującej charakterem, wykształceniem i wdziękiem! – Elżbiety.”
Ludwik Węgierski (1326–1382) said by 1382 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autor: Szymon Kobyliński, Tajemnice pocztu Matejki, Instytut Wydawniczy Nasza Księgarnia, Warszawa 1984, s. 72.
“Ni cheffir eithr o'i weithred Aberth Crist I borthi cred. Bywyd ni chaiff, ni beiwn, Pab nac ymherawdr heb hwn, Na brenin naelwin hoywlyw, Dien ei bwyll, na dyn byw.”
Iolo Goch (1320–1398) said by 1398 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ibn Kathir (Commenting on Quran 2:256 in the unabridged version of his tafsir) - "Therefore all people of the world should be called to Islam. If anyone of them refuses to do so, or refuses to pay the jizya, they should be fought till they are killed.”
Ibn Kathir (1301–1373) said by 1373 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spend well thy time; drink wine within the bower For when a week is gone, the flower is not; Snatch, snatch the hour that glads the heart so well For the pearl always in the shell is not.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All living beings are dependent upon Vishnu for their existence.”
Madhvacharya (1238–1317) said by 1317 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Il nobile cavallo coll’ ombra della verga si regge; è il malvagio appena si conduce cogli sproni.”
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. 318.
“Jednym cięciem dębu obalić nie można.”
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) said by 1375 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Źródło: tom II, Dzień siódmy, IX, wyd. F. H. Richter, Lwów 1890, s. 81, tłum. Władysław Szanser.
“[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
“When an irrational animal like camel dances at the tune of bell, why don't you, being the best of creation, attain absorption and ecstasy in the love of God, or go into rapture by listening the name of the Beloved.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O szlachetny, o czcigodny Pedro, niegdyś chwało Hiszpanii, Którego Fortuna obdarzyła tak wielkim majestatem, Wszyscy z bólem czytają o twej żałosnej śmierci.”
Piotr I Okrutny (1334–1369) said by 1369 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anyone who considers himself guilty before God and repents must believe that the reproach and contempt of others towards him is just and to be endured.”
Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) said by 1359 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gdy Kazimierz [Wielki] miał lat 15, Władysław Łokietek doprowadził do jego małżeństwa z córką Giedymina Aldoną, której na chrzcie dano imię Anna. Małżeństwo miało na uwadze doraźne cele polityczne, ale było zdaje się w pełni udane, chociaż na tę Litwinkę i jej obyczaje niezbyt chętnie w Polsce patrzono.”
Aldona Anna Giedyminówna (1309–1339) said by 1339 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autor: Jerzy Wyrozumski, Kazimierz Wielki, Ossolineum, wyd. 3, Wrocław 2004, s. 230.
“There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He.”
Walter Hilton (1340–1396) said by 1396 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A translated by Serenus Cressy (1659) in the Art and Book Company edition (1901)
“Spostrzegł, że na kamieniu tym pozostał ślad wapna z królewskiego trzewika. Wpadł na pomysł, aby wykuć w kamieniu stopę Jadwigi, a obok umieścić rok, w którym miało miejsce to niezwykłe dla niego wydarzenie: 1390. Dar królowej bardzo pomógł kamieniarzowi. Jego żona wyzdrowiała, a w ich domu nigdy nie było biedy.”
Jadwiga Andegaweńska (1370–1399) said by 1399 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The image of God is found essentially and personally in all mankind. Each possesses it whole, entire and undivided, and all together not more than one alone. In this way we are all one, intimately united in our eternal image, which is the image of God and the source in us of all our life.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Friends' Intelligencer, Vol. 107 (1950), ed. 26-52, p. 657
“Rzeźba z grobowca na Wawelu ukazuje Władysława Łokietka jako mężczyznę z długimi lokami i sumiastymi wąsami. Twarz o rysach grubych, wyrazista, bardzo męska i bardzo słowiańska. Jeśli rzeźba nagrobna odpowiada rzeczywistości, był Łokietek obdarzony urodą sugestywną i nie pozbawioną majestatu. Jednakże z jasną i mocną twarzą kłócić się musiało ciało niepokaźnej postury.”
Władysław I Łokietek (1260–1333) said by 1333 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nythod ddwyn, cyd nithud ddail, Ni'th dditia neb, ni'th etail, Na llu rhugl, na llaw rhaglaw, Na llafn glas na llif na glaw.”
Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320–1380) said by 1380 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Y Gwynt" (The Wind), line 13; translation by Joseph P. Clancy, from Gwyn Jones (ed.) The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English (Oxford: OUP, 1977) p. 39.
“Ulugh Khan invaded Gujarat. He sacked the whole country. He pursued the Rai upto Somnath. He destroyed the temple of Somnath which was the principal place of worship for the Hindus and great Rais since ancient times. He constructed a mosque on the site and returned to Delhi.”
Ulugh Khan (1201–1315) said by 1315 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Somnath (Gujarat) . Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi, Translated from the Hindi version by S.A.A. Rizvi included in Khalji Kalina Bharata, Aligarh, 1955, p. 223. In Goel, S.R. Hindu Temples - What Happened to them
Also quoted by: Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi
“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
“It is hidden for everything that is not God, except for those with whom he wants to share Himself.”
Henry Suso (1295–1366) said by 1366 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spiritual Guide should be perfect, well versed in the vicissitude of the mystic path, and firmly established in his high state. He should be a man who has experiences both the horror of God's Majesty and the delight of His beauty.”
Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri (1263–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source