[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.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. - Izaak Walton
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
- Izaak Walton
Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. - Izaak Walton
Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
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
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.
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped. - Izaak Walton
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? - Izaak Walton
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. - Izaak Walton
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. - Izaak Walton
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. - Izaak Walton
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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