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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

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Izaak Walton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1593
Born: August 9
Died: 1683
Died: December 15
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Staffordshire
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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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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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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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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 and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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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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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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