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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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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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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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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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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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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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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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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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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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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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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