Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton
Izaak Waltonwas an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 August 1593
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blow east goes honest longer rainy shall stay wind wish
I shall stay no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this... discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.
conscience left loses worth
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
friends-or-friendship love mirth next
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
english-writer
In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
god innocent might recreation
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.
thanksgiving gratitude heart
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
wise men fishing
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
learning math fishing
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
doubt rewards virtue
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
travel journey way
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
fitness health blessing
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
berries calm innocence
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
hate blessing fishing
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
blessing missing misery
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.