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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Love can do much, but duty more.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#best #cannot #develop #only #quality

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#passions #powers #their #vices #virtues

Precaution is better than cure.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#cure #precaution #than

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#character #chief #everyone #formation #ought

The little man is still a man.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#little man #man #still

The unnatural, that too is natural.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#too #unnatural

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#character #laugh #more #nothing #people

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#gain #never #noble #torn #us

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#crooked #never #path #reached #straight






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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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