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Izaak Walton, an English writer, was born on August 9, 1593, and died on December 15, 1683. He is best known for his book 'The Compleat Angler,' which provides a detailed description of the art and philosophy of fishing, and has had a profound impact on fishing culture and literature.

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Famous Izaak Walton Quotes

“Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did”

Made Food Berries Strawberries Angling

Author: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.”

World Spirit Humanity Virtue Blessing Calmness Attending Angling

Author:Izaak Walton

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

Lying Stones Graves

Author:Izaak Walton

“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 their benefits from grateful appreciation]”

Men Enjoy Forget Common Pay Missing Gratitude Blessing Benefits Praise Grateful Appreciation Common Man

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“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 for the bad you don't!]”

Missing Gratitude Blessing Let Me Grateful Misery Be Grateful

Author:Izaak Walton

“[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.”

Men Giving Enjoy Simple Flower Gratitude Blessing Rivers Blind Grateful Granted Pleasant Things In Life Be Grateful Fountain Simple Things Meadows Blind Man Simple Things In Life

Author:Izaak Walton

“Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.”

Health Blessing

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“Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.”

Missing Blessing Let Me Misery

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“Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.”

Art Fishes Angling

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“Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.”

Children Soul Mankind Divine Adversity Bitter Diets Almighty Affliction Good Thoughts Almighty God

Book:The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: Containing Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, and Several Other Treatises

Source: The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: Containing Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, and Several Other Treatises

“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”

Men Artist Born Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Angling Anglers

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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?”

Art Doubt Art Is Fishing Artificial Deceiving Trout Fly Fishing Angling Great Fishing Trout Fishing

Book:The Complete Angler

Source: The Complete Angler

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

Hate Blessing And Love Fishing Contention Angling

Book:The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers

Source: The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers

“The will of man is by his reason swayed.”

Men Reason Logic Math Reasoning

Author:Izaak Walton

“We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”

Ifs May Made Said Might Judging Quiet Calm Innocent Drs Recreation Berries Strawberries Angling

Author: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.”

Long Ignorance Ignorant Folly Ashamed Justified Infirmity

Author:Izaak Walton