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• Music is the fragrance of the universe.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Music, Music Is, Fragrance

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• Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Men, Profound, Action

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.167

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• Art does not imitate, but interpret.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Art, Doe

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Germs, Quotations

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

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• The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

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  Greatness, Men, Humanity

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Critical and literary”

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• God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

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  Love, Mother, Country

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

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  Heart, Men, Years

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.78

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• The family is the country of the heart.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Family, Country, Heart

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

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  Change, Father, Progress

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1905). “Autobiographical and political”

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• Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Equality, Lovely, Liberty

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Respect, Freedom, Liberty

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• The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

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  Strong, Rights, Elements

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

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  Country, Long, Humanity

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1862). “The Duties of Man”, p.94

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• Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Angel, Sacrifice, Fire

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Autobiographical and political”

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• God holds with the strong.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Courage, Strong

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1905). “Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini...”

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• In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

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• Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Blood, Ideas, Martyr

  "The Cambridge Modern History". Book edited by Adolphus William Ward et al., Vol. 10, p. 122, 1907.

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• Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Evil, Sorrow

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Critical and literary”

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• Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Consistency, Virtue, Constancy

  "Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini".

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• Good council has no price.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Council

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• Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Mean, Warfare, Band

  1833 General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, section 4.

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• Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

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  Faith, Mean, Effort

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?

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  Art, Lying, Men

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Mother, Children, Kissing

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, War, Voice

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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