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But God, Who Is Able To Prevail, Wrestled With Him
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But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him; marked him for his own.
-- Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
-- Life of Donne
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Thus use your frog: put your hook--I mean the arming wire--through his mouth and out at his gill
and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire...
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
"I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it....
An excellent angler, and now with God. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
iv...
Two men once wrote to Mark Twain. Not having his address, they marked the envelope, Mark Twain God knows where They received a response from him
He did....
I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse
and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing....
Oh, the gallant fisher's life! It is the best of any
'T is full of pleasure, void of strife, And 't is beloved by many....
The great secretary of Nature, Sir Francis Bacon. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- Life of Herbe
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. -- Groucho Marx
And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.
-- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 21...