A Quote by Izaak Walton
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.
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Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
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If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.
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The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.
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