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• “Before the dread journey which needs must be taken No man is more mindful than meet is and right To ponder, ere hence he departs, what his spirit Shall, after the death-day, receive as its portion Of good or of evil, by mandate of doom.”

  Bede (672–735) said by 735 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: A. S. Cook & C. B. Tinker, Select Translations from Old English Poetry (1902), p. 78

• “All the lands of the West have their eyes directed toward our humility; by them we are considered as a God upon earth.”

  Pope Gregory II (669–731) said by 731 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Alternate translation: Christ gives us the relics of saints as health-giving springs through which flow blessings and healing. This should not be doubted. For if at God’s word water gushed from hard rock in the wilderness-yes, and from an ass’s jawbone when Samson was thirsty -why should it seem incredible that healing medicine should distill from the relics of saints”

  John of Damascus (675–749) said by 749 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In Relics: The Shroud of Turin, the True Cross, the Blood of Januarius: History, Mysticism, and the Catholic Church, by Joan Carroll Cruz, 1984 <!--, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Indiana, ISBN 0879737018 ISBN 9780879…

• “He then went to Kandahãr in boats and conquered it. He destroyed the Budd there, and built in its place a mosque.”

  Hisham ibn Amr al-Taghlibi (died 774) said by 774 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “「賢人と対面するときは、おしゃべりになるのではなく、聞こうとするように努めなさい。よい話し方だけでなく、どうやって耳を傾けるのかを学びなさい。誰かの言葉をさえぎってはならない」 『ビハール・アル＝アンワール』1巻、222頁。”

  ムハンマド・バーキル (677–733) said by 733 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “あまのはらふりさけみれば春日なる三笠の山に出でし月かも”

  阿倍仲麻呂 (698–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The believers have four signs: good humor, tactfulness, kind heartedness and openhandedness”

  Ja'far al-Sadiq (699–765) said by 765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thou hast succeeded to the throne, and didst not revile 'Ali, nor terrify The innocent man, nor follow the counsel of the evil-doer; Thou didst speak, and didst confirm what thou didst say by what Thou didst do, and every Muslim became well content.”

  Kuthayyir (660–723) said by 723 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: translated by Edward. G. Browne, A Literary History of Persia, 1909, p.235

• “春の野に霞みたなびきうら悲しこの夕影に鶯鳴くも 我が屋戸のいささ群竹吹く風の音のかそけきこの夕かも うらうらに照れる春日に雲雀上がり情（こころ）悲しも独りし思へば”

  大伴家持 (718–785) said by 785 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “世の中は空しきものと知る時しいよよますます悲しかりけり--巻五・793”

  大伴旅人 (665–731) said by 731 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Verily they are the basest and meanest of men who account avarice prudence, and clemency ignoble.”

  As-Saffah (722–754) said by 754 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “碧玉妝成一樹高， 萬條垂下綠絲縧。 不知細葉誰裁出， 二月春風似剪刀。”

  He Zhizhang (659–744) said by 744 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Spare me four things– and say after that what thou pleasest– do not lie to me for liars have no judgment, and do not answer me regarding what I don not ask thee for it is a distraction from what I do ask thee, and do not be extravagant in my praise for I know myself better then thou, and do not incite me against my subjects for verily clemency unto them is more needful for me.”

  Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (646–705) said by 705 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “渭城の朝の雨が道の埃を落ち着かせ 旅館の柳も青々と生き返ったようだ さあ君、もう一杯やりたまえ 西方の陽関を出てしまえばもう酒を交わす友もいないだろう --元家の二男が安西都護府に使者に出るのを見送って”

  王維 (699–761) said by 761 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “難波津に 御船泊てぬと 聞え來ば 紐解き放けて 立走りせむ”

  山上憶良 (660–733) said by 733 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Let not your flight be in the winter, nor on the sabbath-day. (Translated to Modern English.)”

  Saint Guthlac (674–715) said by 715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: D. C. O. Adams, (1901) The Saints and Missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon Era p 5. Oxford and London. A. R. Mowbray & Co.

• “The sweetness of prayer is one thing,”

  Isaac of Nineveh (640–700) said by 700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “君自故鄉來，應知故鄉事。 來日綺窗前，寒梅著花未？”

  Wang Wei (699–761) said by 761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There is nothing wrong in a man having sexual relations with his Zoroastrian slave-girl.”

  Said ibn al-Musayyib (634–715) said by 715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Said ibn al-Musayyib. Safiıd b. al-Musayyab, quoted from Yohanan Friedmann, Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2003.— pp. 176-178

• “The likeness of this world is as the water of the sea - however much a thirsty person drinks from it, his thirst increases so much so that the water kills him.”

  Musa al-Kadhim (745–799) said by 799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “磯の上に生ふる馬酔木を手折らめど見すべき君がありといわなくに”

  大来皇女 (661–702) said by 702 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source