“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
“Round numbers are always false.”
Quoted in the "Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections" of Sir John Hawkins (1787-1789) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 2, edited by George Birkbeck Hill
“Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest”
London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 166–167
“Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.”
Boulter's Monument. (Supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Kearsley, 600
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”
Quoted in Anecdotes of Johnson by Hannah More in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 197, edited by George Birkbeck Hill. More had quoted this remark in a letter to her sister (April 1782)
Samuel Johnson
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 1
“I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.”
Samuel Johnson
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.”
The Life of Milton
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
March 31, 1778, p. 372
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
From Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson, Apothegms (1787)
In response to Hannah More wondering why Milton could write Paradise Lost but only poor sonnets. June 13, 1784, p. 542
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,—poverty.”
1777
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
July 14, 1763, p. 123
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”
1770, p. 182
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.”
April 2, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.”
1775
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.”
August 16, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
August 15, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
Stanza 9
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
Stanza 5
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
Samuel Johnson
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A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
September 1, 1777
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.”
October 12, 1779
On the Giant's Causeway. A similar opinion was expressed by the English traveller Richard Twiss in 1775 in A Tour of Ireland http://books.google.ie/books?id=ujpIAAAAMAAJ, p. 157
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Letter to James Boswell, December 7, 1782, p. 494
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”
May 1776
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
July 28, 1763, p. 128
On Thomas Sheridan
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Samuel Johnson
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A Dictionary of the English Language
Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.”
April 14, 1772, p. 201
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Samuel Johnson
London
"The Bravery of the English Common Soldiers" http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5L9GAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA306&dq=%22Liberty+is%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=QMMqU_f7MMPMhAeAwoC4DA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Liberty%20is%22&f=false. Note: This essay was "added to some editions of The Idler, when collected into volumes, but not by Dr. Johnson" — vide The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 2 (London, 1806), footnote http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uYPfXTOfTTsC&pg=PA427&dq=%22This+short+paper%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=DcgqU_PlN_Ha0QXQyoDoAw&ved=0CGIQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=%22This%20short%20paper%22&f=false on p. 427
