“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
“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
July 14, 1763, p. 121
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
28 April 1778, p. 659 http://books.google.com/books?id=yYphdZ0abhUC&q="One+of+the+disadvantages+of+wine+it+makes+a+man+mistake+words+for+thoughts"&pg=PA659#v=onepage
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
Samuel Johnson
The Idler
No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Source: The Idler; Poems
Contexte: Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
April 10, 1776, p. 305
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Recalling "what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils" April 30, 1773, p. 217
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
“Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
“New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.”
The Life of Pope
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
Letter to James Boswell, October 27, 1779, p. 433
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.”
1783, p. 500
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Source: The Life of Johnson, Vol 4
“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
Samuel Johnson
London
A Review http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/jenyns.html of Soame Jenyns' A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, published in the first volume of Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (London, 1774), p. 23
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
Samuel Johnson
The Rambler
No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1
Source: The Rambler (1750–1752)
Source: Taxation No Tyranny https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Taxation_No_Tyranny (1775)
1783, p. 519
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
