“Celui qui ne sait pas où aller n'a aucune hâte de bouger.”
He knows not wither to go is in not haste to move.
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Samuel Johnson citations célèbres
“Une grande confiance en soi est la première condition des grandes entreprises.”
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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“Les crimes les plus exécrables sont parfois commis sans aucune tentation apparente.”
The most execrable crimes are sometimes commited without apparent temptation.
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He puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry.
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Of Dr.Goldsmith he said, "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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Do not accustom yourself to view debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.
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As I know more about mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms that I was formerly.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Samuel Johnson: Citations en anglais
“I am glad that he thanks God for anything.”
1755
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”
June 1784, p. 545
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the bold
Fall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.”
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 21
“A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 12
“He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.”
1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Chap. lxxii.
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”
On the subject of ghosts, March 31, 1778, p. 373
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.”
Prayers and Meditations, Against Inquisitive and Perplexing Thoughts (1785)
May 1, 1783, p. 513
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Samuel Johnson
livre
A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
1754
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
George Steevens, 310
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
Samuel Johnson
livre
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 3
March 21, 1776, p. 287
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“LEXICOGRAPHER — A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Samuel Johnson
livre
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 28
September 14, 1777, p. 341
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
July 31, 1763, p. 132. [Several editions have the variant "hind legs".]
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Kearsley, 606
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 158–161
“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.”
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 293
Samuel Johnson
livre
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth
October 5, 1773
Recounted as a common saying of physicians at the time.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“Officious, innocent, sincere,
Of every friendless name the friend.”
Stanza 2
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
Samuel Johnson
The Rambler
No. 50 (8 September 1750); often misattributed to Joseph Addison
The Rambler (1750–1752)
1754, p. 72 (n. 4)
Referring to critics
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
