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• A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

  Jose Marti

  Century, Grain, Seasons

  "Dedication of the Statue of Liberty". Essay by Jose Marti, 1887.

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• My poems please the brave:
  My poems, short and sincere,
  Have the force of steel
  Which forges swords.

  Jose Marti

  Brave, Steel, Sincere

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

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• I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

  Jose Marti

  Art, Grief, Rain

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.273, Penguin

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• A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Roots, Genuine

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

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• It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

  Jose Marti

  Sins Not, Sin, Capable

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

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Doors, Law, Lazy

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Love, Sweet, Encouragement

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

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• Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

  Jose Marti

  Exercise, Oppression, Should

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• It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

  Jose Marti

  Virtue, Fashionable

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

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• Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

  Jose Marti

  Real, Grief, Men

  "Adúltera", 1883.

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Shining, Humanity

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

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• Strength comes from waiting.

  Jose Marti

  Patience, Waiting

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• Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Men, Animal

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Life Lesson, Bread Of Life, Doors

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

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Air, Essence, Wings

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• Literature is the most beautiful of countries

  Jose Marti

  Beautiful, Country, Literature

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• It is the duty of man to raise up man.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Abjection, Duty

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

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• This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

  Jose Marti

  Age, Mountain, Looks

  "A Morir [To Die]". Essay by Jose Marti, 1894.

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• Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Race, Rights

  "My Race". "Patria" Newspaper, April 16, 1893.

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Simple, Dignity, Talent

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

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• 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.

  Jose Marti

  True Friend, Heart, Blow

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• The only way to be totally free is through education.

  Jose Marti

  Education, Educational, Way

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• The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

  Jose Marti

  Wake Up, Dies

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• Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

  Jose Marti

  Hate, Hatred

  "Manifesto of Montecristi". Book by José Martí, 1895.

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• All is beautiful and unceasing,
  all is music and reason,
  and all, like diamond,
  is carbon first, then light.

  Jose Marti

  Beautiful, Light, Firsts

  "José Martí : Selected Writings", by Jose Marti, translated by Esther Allen, (p. 275), 2002.

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