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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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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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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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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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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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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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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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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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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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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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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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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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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