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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

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
Izaak Walton
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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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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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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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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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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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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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