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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Nothing is worth more than this day.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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All things are only transitory.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Did you know about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

His conversations and various common undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander von Humboldt Wilhelm von Humboldt and August and Friedrich Schlegel have in later years been collectively termed Weimar Classicism. After returning from a tour of Italy in 1788 Goethe publiJohann Wolfgang von Goethed his first major work of a scientific nature the Metamorphosis of Plants. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement named for a play by his childhood friend Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.

Goethe's poems were set to music throughout the nineteenth century by a number of composers including Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn ˈɡøːtə] ([Image] listen) 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer artist and politician.

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