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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
Izaak Walton
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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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I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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 person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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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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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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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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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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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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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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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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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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