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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
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It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
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To Educate is to Free.
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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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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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We are free, but no to be evil
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)
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Day and night I always dream with open eyes. - José Martí
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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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Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
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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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A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
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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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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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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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I have lived in the monster and I know its insides and my sling is the sling of David.
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The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.
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It is the duty of man to raise up man.
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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
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