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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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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
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Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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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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Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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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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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
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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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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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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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Others go to bed with their mistresses I with my ideas.
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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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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
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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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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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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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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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Strength comes from waiting.
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