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If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

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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An excellent angler, and now with God.
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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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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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No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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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Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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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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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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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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Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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