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• The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

  Jose Marti

  Passion, Force, Interest

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

  Jose Marti

  Beautiful, Men, Greek

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

  Jose Marti

  Love Is, Men, Ties

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

  Jose Marti

  Hate, Made

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

  Jose Marti

  Hatred, Aftermath, Slavery

  "Woman Suffrage". Essay by Jose Marti, 1887.

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• A selfish man is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Selfish, Men, Thieves

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos". Book by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• In truth, men speak too much of danger.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Too Much, Speak

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Kings, Men, Worst Enemy

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Greed, Soul, Sun

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• My poems are like a dagger
  Sprouting flowers from the hilt;
  My poetry is like a fountain
  Sprinkling streams of coral water.

  Jose Marti

  Flower, Water, Daggers

  "Simple Verses". Book by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

  Jose Marti

  Powerful, Army, Principles

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.

  Jose Marti

  Monsters, Knows

  "Research : The Student's Guide to Writing Research Papers" by Richard Veit, (p. 143), 1998.

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Trust, Money, Wish

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• Oh, what company good poets are!

  Jose Marti

  Poet, Company

  "Longfellow". Essay by Jose Marti, 1882.

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• Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

  Jose Marti

  Reflection, Men, Expression

  "Henry Ward Beecher". Essay by Jose Marti, 1887.

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

  Jose Marti

  People, Inspire, Bards

  "Poesia". Essay by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• To beautify life is to give it an object.

  Jose Marti

  Giving, Life Is, Objects

  "On Oscar Wilde". Essay by Jose Marti, 1882.

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• The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

  Jose Marti

  Winning, Liberty, Mud

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• We are free, but no to be evil

  Jose Marti

  Evil

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Wings, States

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

  Jose Marti

  Happiness, Happy, May

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

  Jose Marti

  Loud Voices, Judging, Enemy

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

  Jose Marti

  Sacred

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• He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

  Jose Marti

  Depth, Doe, Should

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Poetry, Merit, Praise

  Jose Marti's remarks on "El Poema de Niágara" of Pérez Bonalde, 1883.

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