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Izaak Walton [1593-1683] English
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Izaak Walton was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.

God, Good, Nature, Thankful



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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. Good
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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. God, Thankful
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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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. Nature
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God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
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I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
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No man can lose what he never had.
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That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
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In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
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