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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Superstition is the poetry of life.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.


— 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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