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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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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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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.
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The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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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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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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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
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Strength comes from waiting.
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In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.
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Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!
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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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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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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
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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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Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)
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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
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No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
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