Izaak Walton Quotes - Page 3

• A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Mirth, Sin

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 2

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• 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 will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

  Izaak Walton

  Aprendizaje, Ciencia, Hombres

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1824). “The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Estensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, from Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-rate Artists, to which are Added, an Introductory Essay, the Linnœan Arangement of the Various River Fish Delineated in the Work, and Illustrative Notes”, p.57

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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!]

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  Gratitud, Agradecimiento, Bendición

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• 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

  Men, Riches, Sides

  Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Pleasure

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.103

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• And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

  Izaak Walton

  Winter, Fishing, Fly Fishing

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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

  Izaak Walton

  Food, Berries, Made

  The Compleat Angler, 2nd ed., pt. 1, ch. 5 (1655)

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• We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Play, Riches

  Izaak Walton (1853). “The Complete Angler ... Edited by James Rennie. With illustrations and a portrait”, p.234

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• Esos pequeños y ágiles músicos del aire, que gorjean sus curiosas cancioncillas, con las que la naturaleza los ha dotado para vergüenza del arte.

  Izaak Walton

  Art, Nature, Animal

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.18

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• He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

  Izaak Walton

  Looks, Next, Praise

  The Compleat Angler Pt 1, Ch. 21

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• Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

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  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.225

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• The will of man is by his reason swayed.

  Izaak Walton

  Matemáticas, Hombres, Lógica

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• Un excelente pescador, y ahora con Dios.

  Izaak Walton

  Lagos, Mar, Pesca

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• 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

  Angel, Jacob

  'Life of Donne' (1640)

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• For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.

  Izaak Walton

  Sabio, Hijos, Padre

  John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (2010). “The Pilgrim's Progress & the Lives of Donne and Herbert”, p.330, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

  Izaak Walton

  Poetry, Old Fashioned

  Izaak Walton (1825). “The Complete Angler; Or, Comtemplative Man's Recreation: With Lives of the Authors, and Notes”, p.126

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