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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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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You cannot lose what you never had.
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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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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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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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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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Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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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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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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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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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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No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
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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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