Izaak Walton was an English writer, author of The Compleat Angler.
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“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
Izaak Walton
“I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning”
“God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart”
“No man can lose what he never had”
“Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy”
“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.”
“I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing”
“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”
“Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.”
“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler”