Izaak Walton quotes
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“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
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“No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.”
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“Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 21
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“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1808). “The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:”
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“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : '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.”
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“I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : 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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“God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : 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.125
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“I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1
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“I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18
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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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“Health is...a blessing that money cannot buy.”
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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?”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28
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“Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : Izaak Walton (1653). “The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers”, p.246
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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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“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.”
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“I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.”
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“These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : 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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“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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“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 WaltonSource : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1
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“If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.”
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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.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1808). “The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:”, p.102
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“This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.”
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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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“But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.”
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“Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.”
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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 WaltonSource : 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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“Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.”
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“The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.”
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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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“Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.”
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“There are offences given and offences not given but taken.”
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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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“That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.”
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“Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.”
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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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“Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...”
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“Angling is an Art... an art worth your learning.”
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“[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.”
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“Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]”
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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]”
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“He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.”
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“You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.”
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“Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did”
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“Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.”
-- Izaak WaltonSource : "The Compleat Angler".
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“Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!”
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“We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.”
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“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.”
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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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“And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.”
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“Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.”
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“He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.”
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“A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”
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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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“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.”
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