Izaak Walton - Angling Quotes

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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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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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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

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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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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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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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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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