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Izaak Walton
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Izaak Walton

“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.”

- Izaak Walton

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

- Izaak Walton

Source/Notes: Epistle to the Reader. - The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
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Izaak Walton

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

- Izaak Walton

Source/Notes: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 579.
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“God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”

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

- Izaak Walton

Source/Notes: Part I, ch. 2. - The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
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“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”

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“I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.”

- Izaak Walton

Source/Notes: Part I, ch. 5. - The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
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“In so doing, use him as though you loved him.”

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“No man can lose what he never had.”

- Izaak Walton

Source/Notes: Part I, ch. 5. - The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
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“That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.”

- Izaak Walton

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“The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.”

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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.”

- Izaak Walton

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

- Izaak Walton

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“But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own; marked him with a blessing, a blessing of obedience to the motions of his blessed Spirit.”

- Izaak Walton

Source/Notes: Life of Donne (1640).
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