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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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In art the best is good enough.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Life is the childhood of our immortality.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Live dangerously and you live right.


— 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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