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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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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.
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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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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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Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
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Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy and therefore value it.
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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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Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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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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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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It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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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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