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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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Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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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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No man can lose what he never had.
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Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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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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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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No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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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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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.
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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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