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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Age merely shows what children we remain.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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An unused life is an early death.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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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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