Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. - Izaak Walton

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Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

Izaak Walton

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About Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton (9 August 1593 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer, author of The Compleat Angler.

Alternative Names: Isaak Walton • Isaac Walton

Originators like Izaak Walton:

As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.

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.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.