Izaak Walton Quotes
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It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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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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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
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Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.
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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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The will of man is by his reason swayed.
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I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
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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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You cannot lose what you never had.
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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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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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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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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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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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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
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There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.
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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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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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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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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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
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Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
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God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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