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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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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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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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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!]
Izaak Walton
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.
Izaak Walton
An excellent angler, and now with God.
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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.
Izaak Walton
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.
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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.
Izaak Walton
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.
Izaak Walton
Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
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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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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Izaak Walton
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Izaak Walton
These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
Izaak Walton
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
Izaak Walton
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
Izaak Walton