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Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
Jose Marti
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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
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Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy life is secure for those who obey the law of work.
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Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
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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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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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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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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
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The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
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