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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
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I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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Others go to bed with their mistresses I with my ideas.
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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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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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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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Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
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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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All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
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Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
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