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Goethe's Journey to the Harz Mountain has a poem by him in it which is very inspired. Brahms wrote the music for it. It was written after visiting a man who saw only the negative side of life and became a hermit. Goethe specially went to see him to point out the positive side of life.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 6 : Avoid Fanaticism > # 20