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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
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Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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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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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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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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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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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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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
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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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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