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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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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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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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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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You cannot lose what you never had.
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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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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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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.
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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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Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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