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Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Jose Marti
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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
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Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
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The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
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Oh, what company good poets are!
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Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
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Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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Strength comes from waiting.
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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
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All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
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Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
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Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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We are free, but no to be evil
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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
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A selfish man is a thief.
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He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
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