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A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. - [Associates] And let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. - [Blessedness] Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. - [Blessings] He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience. - [Conscience] I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. - [Angling] I regard them, as Charles the Emperor did Florence, that they are too pleasant to be looked upon except on holidays. - [Flowers] Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. - [Conscience] Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth! - [Music] Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven. - written of Dr. Richard Sibbes' in a copy of Sibbes' "The Returning Backslider" [Blessedness] So long as thou art ignorant, be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities; and when justified, the chiefest of all follies. - [Ignorance] The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here; Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow 'Him hath chose. - [Angling] But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own. - Life of Donne [Death] He had too thoughtful a wit: like a penknife in too narrow a sheath, too sharp for his body. - Life of George Herbert, report as Herbert's saying about himself [Wit] The great Secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon. - Life of Herbert [Bacon, Francis] He directed the stone over his grave to be thus inscribed: Hie jacet hujus Sententiae primus Author: Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies. Nomen alias quaere. Here lies the first author of this sentence: "The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church." Inquire his name elsewhere. - Life of Wotton [Epitaphs] [T]is not all fishing to fish. - The Compleat Angler [Fishing] And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date. - The Compleat Angler (Author's Preface) [Flyfishing] Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt. - The Compleat Angler (Author's Preface) [Fishing] As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. - The Compleat Angler (Author's Preface) [Fishing] No man is born an Artist nor an Angler. - The Compleat Angler (Author's Preface) [Fishermen] It is an art worthy the knowledge and patience of a wise man. - The Compleat Angler (ch. I) [Fishing] You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it. - The Compleat Angler (ch. I) [Fishing] Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis belov'd of many: Other joys Are but toys; Only this Lawful is, For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure. - The Compleat Angler (ch. XI), (first edition) [Fishermen] O! the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any: 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis beloved by many. Other joys Are but toys; Only this, Lawful is; For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure. - The Compleat Angler (ch. XVI) [Fishing] Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so. - The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. I) [Fishing] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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