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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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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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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For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.
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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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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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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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Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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No man can lose what he never had.
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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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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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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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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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