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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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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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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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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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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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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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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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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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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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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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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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