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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
To Educate is to Free.
A selfish man is a thief.
Strength comes from waiting.
We are free, but no to be evil
Oh, what company good poets are!
To change masters is not to be free.
Charm is a product of the unexpected.
It is the duty of man to raise up man.
Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
The truthe wakes up once and never dies.
America is a land of creators and rebels.
To beautify life is to give it an object.
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
Literature is the most beautiful of countries
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
People can only be free if they are truly educated.
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
The only way to be totally free is through education.
Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.
Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.
Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.
Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.
Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
