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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
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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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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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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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No man can lose what he never had.
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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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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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Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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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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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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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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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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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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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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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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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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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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