Izaak Walton Quotes

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• I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

  Izaak Walton

  Business, Fishing, Gone

  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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• Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

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  Wise, Men, Lakes

  "The Compleat Angler".

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• If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

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  Thankful, Expressing Gratitude, Ifs

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• God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

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  Berries, Innocence, Calm

  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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• No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

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  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

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  Art, Fishes, Angling

  "The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation".

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

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  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

  Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Art, Fishing, Doubt

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28

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• Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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  Travel, Journey, Way

  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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• 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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  Blessing, Humanity, World

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

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  Learning, Math, Fishing

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

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

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  Water, Locks, Wonder

  Izaak Walton (1894). “The compleat angler”, p.37, Рипол Классик

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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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  Gratitude, Grateful, Flower

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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 Walton

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 21

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• The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

  Izaak Walton

  Life, Learning, Loss

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• He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

  Izaak Walton

  Lying, Stones, Graves

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• Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

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  Hate, Blessing, Fishing

  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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• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

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  Men, Fishing, Born

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

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• I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

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  Brother, Lakes, Sea

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

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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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  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  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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• I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

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  Fishing, Rivers, Conversation

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18

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• No man can lose what he never had.

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  Loss, Men, Loses

  The Compleat Angler pt. 1, ch. 5 (1653)

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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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  Ignorance, Long, Ignorant

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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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  Queens, Food, Men

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

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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.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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