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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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Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
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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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Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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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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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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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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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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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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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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