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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
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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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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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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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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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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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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