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“朱鵲橋邊野草花，烏衣巷口夕陽斜。 旧时王谢堂前燕，飞入寻常百姓家。”
刘禹锡 (772–842) said by 842 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“鬼哭復何益 仗劍明秋水 兇威屢脅逼 強梟噬母心 犇厲索人魄”
Li He (790–831) said by 831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ashmore, R., Allen, S., Nugent, C. & Tian, X. (2023). The Poetry of Li He. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504716
“He, who does not know the entries, the exits will fail him.”
Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) said by 835 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“公之斯文若元气， 先时已入人肝脾。”
Li Shangyin (813–858) said by 858 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Han Monument" (《韩碑》), in The Jade Mountain (1929), trans. Witter Bynner, p. viii
“The worst of men is he who stops his contributions to charity, eats by himself, and whips his slave.”
Ali al-Rida (770–818) said by 818 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“鸟宿池边树，僧敲月下门。”
賈島 (779–843) said by 843 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gnostic has an elevated spiritual rank. He eats less, sleeps less and repose less. He is like shinning moon who radiates others and bears the burden of everything on earth, shows right path like light and saturates the heart like water giving it new life.”
Sari al-Saqati (772–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Narrated Mu'awiyah ibn Haydah: I said: Apostle of Allah, from whom should we conceal our private parts and to whom can we show? He replied: conceal your private parts except from your wife and from whom your right hands possess (slave-girls)...”
Sunan Abi Dawud (817–888) said by 888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An ancient said that if you call it a thing, you miss the mark. Just look for yourself: what else is there? Talk could go on forever: each of you must personally make the effort.”
Linji Yixuan (850–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I endured afflictions and sowrrow When death took Haylanah to itself. I parted from my happiness when I lost her And care not now what it may be. She was my world: and when she sank Into her grave, I parted from my world. Verily people have multiplied, but I Behold no creature after her. By Allah, I shall not forget thee As long as the wind shaketh the boughs on the upland.”
Harun al-Rashid (766–809) said by 809 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“残灯无焰影幢幢，暗风吹雨入寒窗。”
元稹 (779–831) said by 831 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take care that none of them escapes.”
Charlemagne (742–814) said by 814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz). Referring to conspirators against Pope Leo III.
“I lay my harp on the curved table, Sitting there idly, filled only with emotions. Why should I trouble to play? A breeze will come and sweep the strings.”
Bai Juyi (772–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Harp", in The White Pony: An Anthology Of Chinese Poetry (1949), ed. Robert Payne, p. 220
“舍人不会人深意，讶道泉台不去随。”
关盼盼 (741–820) said by 820 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the scholars remains silent the grounds of dissimulation (Taqiyah), and the ignorant do not know, when will the truth be manifested?”
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780–855) said by 855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“双栖绿池上，朝暮共飞还。更忆将雏日，同心莲叶间。”
薛涛 (768–831) said by 831 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“為報玉川子，知君未是賢。”
盧仝 (795–835) said by 835 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Atman, the Sun of Knowledge that rises in the sky of the heart, destroys the darkness of the ignorance, pervades and sustains all and shines and makes everything to shine.”
Adi Shankara (788–820) said by 820 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.”
Bayazid Bastami (804–848) said by 848 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in James Fadiman and Robert Frager, eds., Essential Sufism (Castle Books, 1998, , p. 37.
“高歌明鏡，昨日少年今白頭。”
許渾 (788–862) said by 862 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The utmost degree of gnosis is dismay and perplexity.”
Sahl al-Tustari (818–896) said by 896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Abu Wa'il narrated: "Ali said to Abu Al-Hayyaj Al-Asadi: 'I am dispatching you with what the Prophet dispatched me: "That you not leave an elevated grave without leveling it, nor an image without erasing it.”
Al-Tirmidhi (825–892) said by 892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“慈母手中线，游子身上衣。临行密密缝，意恐迟迟归。谁言寸草心，报得三春晖。”
孟郊 (751–814) said by 814 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“白雪却嫌春色晚，故穿庭树作飞花。”
韓愈 (768–824) said by 824 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source