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“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
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“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
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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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“We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.”
José Martí, Nuestra America y Otros Escritos
“Cultivo una rosa blanca,
En julio como en enero,
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca.
Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazon con que vivo,
Cardo ni oruga cultivo
Cultivo una rosa blanca.

I have a white rose to tend
In July as in January;
I give it to the true friend
Who offers his frank hand to me.
And to the cruel one whose blows
Break the heart by which I live,
Thistle nor thorn do I give:
For him, too, I have a white rose.”
José Martí, Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage) (Pinata Books for Young Adults)
“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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“Todo es hermoso y constante,
Todo es música y razón,
Y todo, como el diamante,
Antes que luz es carbón.”
Jose Marti, Simple Verses/Versos Sencillos
“Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.”
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“Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.”
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“Amor cuerdo, no es amor.
(Sane love, is not love)”
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“To Educate is to Free.”
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“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”
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“El amor, madre, a la patria
no es el amor ridículo a la tierra,
ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas;
Es el odio invencible a quien la oprime,
es el rencor eterno a quien la ataca”
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“A good soul on earth hurts very much.”
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“The truthe wakes up once and never dies.”
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“Vivi dentro del monstro y conozco sus entranas”
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“Dicen que murió de frío. Yo sé que murió de amor.”
José Martí, Obra poética
“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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“Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen.”
Jose Marti, Selected Writings
“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.”
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“Yo he visto en la noche oscura llover sobre mi cabeza los rayos de lumbra pura de la divina belleza.”
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“Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat . . . between the law of love and the law of hate.”
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“Mientras mas honda la herida,
Es mi canto mas hermoso.

While more deeper is the wound
The more beautiful the art.”
José Martí, Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage) (Pinata Books for Young Adults)
“Porque usted sabe, general, que mover un país, por pequeño que sea, es obra de gigantes. Y quien no se sienta gigante de amor, o de valor, o de pensamiento, o de paciencia, no debe emprenderla”
José Martí, Páginas escogidas
“... La naturaleza es hermosa, que la vida es un deber, que la muerte no es fea, que nadie debe estar triste ni acobardarse mientras haya libros en las librerías, y luz en el cielo, y amigos, y madres.”
José Martí, La edad de oro
“i El deber de un hombre es estar allí, donde es mas útil!”
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“Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty.”
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“Es como la elegancia, mi María, que está en el buen gusto, y no en el costo. La elegancia del vestido,-la grande y verdadera,-está en la altivez y fortaleza del alma. Un alma honrada, inteligente y libre, da al cuerpo más elegancia, y más poderío a la mujer, que las modas más ricas de las tiendas. Mucha tienda, poca alma. Quien tiene mucho adentro, necesita poco afuera. Quien lleva mucho afuera, tiene poco adentro, y quiere disimular lo poco. Quien siente su belleza, la belleza interior, no busca afuera belleza prestada: se sabe hermosa, y la belleza hecha echa luz.”
José Martí, Cartas A María Mantilla

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