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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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
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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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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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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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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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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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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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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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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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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him marked him for his own.
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