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[T]is not all fishing to fish.
I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
No man can lose what he never had.
You cannot lose what you never had.
An excellent angler, and now with God.
The will of man is by his reason swayed.
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.
The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.
But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
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.
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
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!]
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.