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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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On all the peaks lies peace.


— 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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