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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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Stafford
Staffordshire
Isaak Walton
Izaak 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. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]
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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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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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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 am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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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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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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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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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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You cannot lose what you never had.
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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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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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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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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.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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