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We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.
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
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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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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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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I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
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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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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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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.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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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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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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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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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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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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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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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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