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• I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

  Jose Marti

  Silence, World, Flow

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.275, Penguin

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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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• To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

  Jose Marti

  Use, Benefits, Theft

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

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• Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Mountain Peaks, Mountain

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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.

  Jose Marti

  Trust, Delicate Life, Honor

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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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• We are free, but no to be evil

  Jose Marti

  Evil

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

  Jose Marti

  Sacrifice, Self, Glory

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

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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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• The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Makeup, Government

  "Our America". Essay by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

  Jose Marti

  Justice, Soul, Needs

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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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