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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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No man can lose what he never had.
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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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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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[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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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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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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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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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Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
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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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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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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 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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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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 and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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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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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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