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You cannot lose what you never had.

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
Never
Fishing
Fishes
Boat
Rivers
Sea
Lose
Loses
Cannot
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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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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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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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Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.
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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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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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