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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Riches, Sides

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

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• I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

  Izaak Walton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Pleasure

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.103

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• And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

  Izaak Walton

  Winter, Fishing, Fly Fishing

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

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

  Izaak Walton

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Mirth, Sin

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

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• Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

  Izaak Walton

  Food, Berries, Made

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

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Play, Riches

  Izaak Walton (1853). “The Complete Angler ... Edited by James Rennie. With illustrations and a portrait”, p.234

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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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• 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

  Art, Nature, Animal

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.18

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.225

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• The will of man is by his reason swayed.

  Izaak Walton

  Math, Men, Logic

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• An excellent angler, and now with God.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 4

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Looks, Next, Praise

  The Compleat Angler Pt 1, Ch. 21

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Angel, Jacob

  'Life of Donne' (1640)

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Children, Father

  John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (2010). “The Pilgrim's Progress & the Lives of Donne and Herbert”, p.330, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

  Izaak Walton

  Poetry, Old Fashioned

  Izaak Walton (1825). “The Complete Angler; Or, Comtemplative Man's Recreation: With Lives of the Authors, and Notes”, p.126

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