Izaak Walton Quotes

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• That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
• There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
• Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
• Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
• 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…
• 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…
• The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...
• No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
• No man can lose what he never had.
• Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
• Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
• 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.
• He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
• 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…
• 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…
• [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…
• Health is...a blessing that money cannot buy.
• Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
• Angling is an Art... an art worth your learning.

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