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Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
Izaak Walton
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Izaak Walton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1593
Born: August 9
Died: 1683
Died: December 15
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Stafford
Staffordshire
Isaak Walton
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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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Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.
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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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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.
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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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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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You cannot lose what you never had.
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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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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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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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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Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice
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