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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

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
Fishes
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Learning
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Angling

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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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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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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.
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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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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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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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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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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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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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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