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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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I love those who yearn for the impossible.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.


— 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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