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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
Izaak Walton
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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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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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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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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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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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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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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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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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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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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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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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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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