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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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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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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
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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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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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