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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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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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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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Strength comes from waiting.
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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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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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Others go to bed with their mistresses I with my ideas.
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Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
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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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Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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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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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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All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
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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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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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It is the duty of man to raise up man.
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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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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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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
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