These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly. - Izaak Walton

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What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

Izaak Walton

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

Lakes, Men, Pity, Poor, Sea

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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

Angling, Fully, Learnt, May, Saidtobe

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.

Angling, Learning, Left, Men, Science, Trial

Angling is an Art. . . an art worth your learning.

Angling, Art, Fishes, Learning

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

Bite, Four, Hours, Known, Rivers, Six

It [angling] deserves commendations;. . . it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Angling, Art, Commendations, Man, Men, Wise

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