Jose Marti Quotes
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To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
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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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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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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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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
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The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
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To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
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In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.
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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
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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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Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
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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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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.
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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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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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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
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Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
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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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Oh, what company good poets are!
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
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Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
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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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A selfish man is a thief.
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Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.
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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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