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

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.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice.

Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sons are things.

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

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

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

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.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

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

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

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.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

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

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, we forget to pay our praises. But let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him who still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content.

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.

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

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

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.

But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

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

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

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

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

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

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

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

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

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.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

The Waters are Nature’s storehouse in which she locks up her wonders...

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

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.

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

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

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern’d angler.

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.

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

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

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

If you can’t be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

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.

I have laid aside business, and gone a’fishing.

You cannot lose what you never had.

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.