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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Did you know about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

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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