Izaak Walton Short Quotes

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I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.

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

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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.

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And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

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The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders..

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This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

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As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.

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God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

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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 us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

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

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

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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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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 remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

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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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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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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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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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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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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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