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Dr. Jose P. Rizal

Dr. Jose P. Rizal

Dr. Jose P. Rizal

(June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896, Bagumbayan), was a Filipino polymath, patriot and the most prominent advocate for reform in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is regarded as the foremost Filipino patriot and is listed as one of the national heroes of the Philippines by National Heroes Committee.[2] His execution by the Spanish in 1896, a date marked annually as Rizal Day, a Philippine national holiday, was one of the causes of the Philippine Revolution.

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The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. (El Filibusterismo)

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Equality of Men "Men are born equal, naked and without chains. They were not created by God to be enslaved, neither were they endowed with intelligence in order to be misled, nor adorned with reason to be fooled by others. It is not pride to refuse to worship a fellow man, to enlighten the mind, and to reason everything. The arrogant one is he who wants to be worshipped, who misleads others, and who wants his will to prevail over reason and lustice."( Jose Rizal Message to the women of Malolos, Europe, Feb. 1889)

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He who would love much has also much to suffer.

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God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

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The sea, the sea is everything! Its sovereign mass brings to me atoms of a myriad faraway lands;Its bright smile animates me in the limpid mornings. And when at the end of day my faith has failed me, My heart echoes the sound of its sorrow in the sands! (Mi Retiro)

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It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice. (El Filibusterismo)

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Virtue lies in the middle ground.

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You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark!" (El Filibusterismo)

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No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

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Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

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He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return!

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To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

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To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

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I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess... but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side — mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.

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Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

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The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. (El Filibusterismo)

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It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.

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I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night! (Noli Me Tangere)

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There are no tyrants where there are no slaves. (El Filibusterismo)

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Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

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No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

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Man is multiplied by the "number of languages" he possesses and speaks. (Los Viajes!)

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Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest! (24 December 1886)

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Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive! (Noli Me Tangere)

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It breaks immortality's neck. Contemplates crime and therefore halts it; It humbles barbarous nations, And makes of savages, champions! ("Por La Education")

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The world laughs at another man's pain.

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No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

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Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow? (El Filibusterismo)

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Fate presented itself to some like a chinese fan--one side black, the other side gilded with flowers. (Noli Me Tangere)

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Each one writes history according to his convenience.

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Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

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Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all!

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Little learning is dangerous.

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Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

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One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

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People don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

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Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers! (Noli Me Tangere)

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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

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The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

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Believing in accidents is like believing in miracles--both presuppose that God does not know the future. (Noli Me Tángere)

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Crowns of flowers and laurels are the inventions of free people.

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Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

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The heart of success, the painter of mind.You are the great masterpiece. Practice it high.

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What is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

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Ana Marie Petallar Calabson
ukitnam for no reason
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Jude Jude
did our national hero , rizal did wrote legacy about student of the future??
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Marvie P. Sambilad
Dr. Jose Rizal deserves the title as the Philippine National Hero..
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Joey Claro Mejia Guinto
Did A. Bonifacio or General Aguinaldo even try saving Rizal from the firing Squad?
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