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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
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
Isaak Walton
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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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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 cannot lose what you never had.
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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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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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
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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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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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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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God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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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I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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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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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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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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