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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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Staffordshire
Isaak Walton
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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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 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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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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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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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.
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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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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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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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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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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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You cannot lose what you never had.
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