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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
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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 that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.
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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 in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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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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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
Izaak Walton
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 am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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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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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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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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
Izaak Walton
God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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
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
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
Izaak Walton
An excellent angler, and now with God.
Izaak Walton
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
Izaak Walton
