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No man can lose what he never had.
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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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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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.
Izaak Walton
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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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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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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 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
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
Izaak Walton
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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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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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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.
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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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