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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
Loses
Cannot
Lakes
Never
Fishing
Fishes
Boat
Rivers
Sea
Lose

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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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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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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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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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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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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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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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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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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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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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