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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.


— 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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Doubt grows with knowledge.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.


— 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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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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