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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
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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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I have lived in the monster and I know its insides and my sling is the sling of David.
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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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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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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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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
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Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
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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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The first duty of a man is to think for himself
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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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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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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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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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Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
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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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It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.
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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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Day and night I always dream with open eyes. - José Martí
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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
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