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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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God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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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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And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.
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The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.
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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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Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, we forget to pay our praises. But let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him who still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content.
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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.
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Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.
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O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
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Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.
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If I should begin but to name the several sorts of strange fish... that run into the sea, I might beget wonder in you, or unbelief, or both; and yet I will venture to tell you..
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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders..
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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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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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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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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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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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Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,
Heaven was in him, before he was in heaven.
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But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own; marked him with a blessing, a blessing of obedience to the motions of his blessed Spirit.
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Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it."
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Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element are made for wise men to contemplate, and for fools to pass by without consideration.
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I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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Let the blessing of St. Peter's Master be... upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.
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You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.
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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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Izaak Walton
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Born:
August 9, 1593
Died:
December 15, 1683
(aged 90)
Bio:
Izaak Walton was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.
Known for:
The Compleat Angler: Classic Fishing Books (1653)
Contemplative Man's Recreation
Lives of Donne and Herbert
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