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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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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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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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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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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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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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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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No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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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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