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No man can lose what he never had.
Izaak Walton
Man
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Izaak Walton
Business
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Izaak Walton
Artist
Man
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton
God
Heart
Heaven
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Izaak Walton
God
Quiet
Recreation
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
Virtue
Company
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton
Company
Journey
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Izaak Walton
Mathematics
May
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Izaak Walton
Business
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Izaak Walton
Conscience
Nothing
Worth
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
Art
Nature
Musicians
Shame
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Izaak Walton
God
Men
Daughters
Sons
Words
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Izaak Walton
Love
Friends
Mirth