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• And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Flower, Sacrifice

  "The Complete Angler".

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Judging, Drs, Berries

  The Compleat Angler, 2nd ed., pt. 1, ch. 5 (1655)

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

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Heaven, Grandfather

  Written in Dr Richard Sibbes's Returning Backslider, now preserved in Salisbury Cathedral Library

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

  Izaak Walton

  Artist, Men, Lakes

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

  Izaak Walton

  Blessing, Missing, Misery

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• These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1775). “The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...”, p.5

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• So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

  Izaak Walton

  Ignorance, Long, Ignorant

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

  Izaak Walton

  Family, Empathy, Understanding

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 2

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

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Art, Men

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

  Izaak Walton

  Being Thankful, Quiet, Competence

  Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Four, Six

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.151

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Queens, Food, Men

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (2014). “The Compleat Angler”, p.151, OUP Oxford

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• [T]is not all fishing to fish.

  Izaak Walton

  Fishing, Fishes

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• That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

  Izaak Walton

  Business, Gossip

  Izaak Walton (1847). “The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.49

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• Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.

  Izaak Walton

  Void, Beloved, Pleasure

  Izaak Walton (1878). “The complete angler, by I. Walton and C. Cotton. New illustr. ed., with notes by G.C. Davies”

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• Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

  Izaak Walton

  Confidence, Taken, Given

  Izaak Walton (1833). “The Complete Angler ; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Lives and Notes”, p.33

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• There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Jobs, Men

  Richard Hooker (1830). “The Ecclesiastical polity and other works of Richard Hooker: with his life by I. Walton. To which are added, the 'Christian letter' to mr. Hooker; and dr. Covel's 'Just and temperate defence' in reply to it [&c.] an intr. and notes by B. Hanbury”, p.67

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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; and therefore value it.

  Izaak Walton

  Health, Blessing

  "The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation".

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• You cannot lose what you never had.

  Izaak Walton

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

  Izaak Walton

  May, Angling

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

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Fishing, Rivers

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 8

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Believe, Two, Soul

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• Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

  Izaak Walton

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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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

  Izaak Walton

  Mean, Men, Practice

  1653 The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.1.

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