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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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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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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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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
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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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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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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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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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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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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
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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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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders..
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The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.
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This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
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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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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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As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
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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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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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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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It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
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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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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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