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Thus use your frog... Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills;... and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your hook; or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the armed-wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.
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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 remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
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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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I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.
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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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An honest ale-house where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.
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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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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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I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
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I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.
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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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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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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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