Izaak Walton - Man Quotes

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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Izaak Walton

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,
Heaven was in him, before he was in heaven.

Izaak Walton

It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Izaak Walton

Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.

Izaak Walton

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.

Izaak Walton

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

Izaak Walton