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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Izaak Walton

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Izaak Walton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1593
Born: August 9
Died: 1683
Died: December 15
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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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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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Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
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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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Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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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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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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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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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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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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