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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Izaak Walton

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Izaak Walton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1593
Born: August 9
Died: 1683
Died: December 15
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Stafford
Staffordshire
Isaak Walton
Izaak Walton
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He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.
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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.
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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]
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You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him marked him for his own.
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So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
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