“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
September 19, 1777, p. 351, often misquoted as being hanged in the morning.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.”
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.”
Letter to Boswell. Dec. 8, 1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.”
Samuel Johnson
The Idler
No. 39 (January 13, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”
April 15, 1778, p. 392
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Samuel Johnson
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A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.”
1783, p. 501
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
April 28, 1778, p. 404
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Letter to Hester Thrale (12 April 1781) http://books.google.com/books?id=184WAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA736
“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”
Samuel Johnson
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 47
1775, p. 273
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.”
1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
December 13, 1784 (Last words)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
July 6, 1763, p. 120
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“CLUB — An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller
February 7, 1754 (Letter to Lord Chesterfield)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“OATS — A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
The Life of Gray
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Source: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 266
The Life of Milton
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747)
August 6, 1763, p. 134
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,
No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.”
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 193
