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An excellent angler, and now with God.

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
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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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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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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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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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