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No man can lose what he never had. — Izaak Walton

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. — Izaak Walton

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did — Izaak Walton

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. — Izaak Walton

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,
Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven. — Izaak Walton

Angling is an Art ... an art worth your learning. — Izaak Walton

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy. — Izaak Walton

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. — Izaak Walton

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

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season. — Izaak Walton

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. — Izaak Walton

[T]is not all fishing to fish. — Izaak Walton

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. — Izaak Walton

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

Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt. — Izaak Walton

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly. — Izaak Walton

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. — Izaak Walton

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling. — Izaak Walton

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth! — Izaak Walton

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. — Izaak Walton

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

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. — Izaak Walton

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

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

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. — Izaak Walton

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

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. — Izaak Walton

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.. — Izaak Walton

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. — Izaak Walton

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. — Izaak Walton

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams. — Izaak Walton

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so ... — Izaak Walton

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. — Izaak Walton

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. — Izaak Walton

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. — Izaak Walton

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

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

An excellent angler, and now with God. — Izaak Walton

There are offences given and offences not given but taken. — Izaak Walton

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

Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many. — Izaak Walton

It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. — Izaak Walton

In so doing, use him as though you loved him. — Izaak Walton

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. — Izaak Walton