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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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Staffordshire
Isaak Walton
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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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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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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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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]
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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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We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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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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