"We really cannot see what equanimity there is……" — Leigh Hunt
"We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish."
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Leigh Hunt
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56 Quotes by Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt has 56 quotes on this site.
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To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is…
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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
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Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take…
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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of…
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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects;…
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There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with…
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The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
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Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
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Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their…
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It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and…
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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More Anglers Quotes
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be…
— Thomas McGuane
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No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
— Izaak Walton
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Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no…
— John Gierach
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Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch,…
— John Wolcot
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Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
— Roderick Haig-Brown
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I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them…
— Tom Felton
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The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler…
— Charles Kingsley
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A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness…
— Leigh Hunt
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There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because…
— Tom Felton
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
— Izaak Walton
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The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up,…
— Cyril Connolly
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