ThursdaySep 17, 2026
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Izaak Walton (August 9, 1593 - December 15, 1683) was an English writer, author of The Compleat Angler.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
No man can lose what he never had.
Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their 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.
Angling may be said to be so like mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. Nomen alias quaere [Here lies the author of this phrase: 'The itch for disputing is the sore of churches.' Seek his name elsewhere.]
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
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