ThursdayFeb 05, 2026
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Izaak Walton (August 9, 1593 - December 15, 1683) was an English writer, author of The Compleat Angler.
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 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.]
Angling may be said to be so like mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
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.
No man can lose what he never had.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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