“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
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26
The Patriot (1774)
March 20, 1782
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.”
1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”
November 1784, p. 566
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Pitt's Reply to Walpole, Speech, March 6, 1741. This is the composition of Johnson, founded on some note or statement of the actual speech. Johnson said, "That speech I wrote in a garret, in Exeter Street." Boswell: Life of Johnson, 1741
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
July 6, 1763, p. 120
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
September 14, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
Feb. 15, 1766, p. 145
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.”
Samuel Johnson
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 13; variant with modernized spelling: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
“He who praises everybody praises nobody.”
Johnson's Works (1787), vol. XI, p. 216; This set included the Life of Samuel Johnson by Sir John Hawkins
1773
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Vol. I, p. 137
Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson
Variante: The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26
“Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!”
October 23, 1773
Ordering a glass of whisky for himself
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“Was ever poet so trusted before?”
1774
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Samuel Johnson
The Rambler
No. 151 (27 August 1751). http://books.google.com/books?id=VvhDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22avarice+is+generally+the+last+passion+of+those+lives+of+which+the+first+part+has+been+squandered+in+pleasure+and+the+second+devoted+to+ambition%22&pg=PA262#v=onepage
The Rambler (1750–1752)
The Life of Addison
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 29
“Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.”
September 23, 1777, p. 363
A toast made by Johnson, as Boswell states, "when in company with some very grave men at Oxford".
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“It might as well be said, "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."”
In response to a line of a tragedy that went 'Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free." June 1784
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,
And makes the happiness she does not find.”
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 367
Source: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 281
“Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.”
Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Line added to Goldsmith's Deserted Village
1781, p. 479
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.”
The Life of Dryden
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
