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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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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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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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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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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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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.
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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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