"Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear My voice ascending high."

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"In books, or work, or healthful play."

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"Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound."

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"When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I 'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes."

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"To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven."

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"Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head."

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"And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two."

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"Fly, like a youthful hart or roe, Over the hills where spices grow."

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"The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours."

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"I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle."

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

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"Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge."

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"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."

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

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"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."

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"An excellent angler, and now with God."

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"Thus use your frog: put your hook--I mean the arming wire--through his mouth and out at his gills, 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; and in so doing use him as though you loved him."

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"Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.""

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"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."

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"Angling is somewhat like poetry,--men are to be born so."

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"And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling."

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"The great secretary of Nature,--Sir Francis Bacon."

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"It [angling] deserves commendations; . . . it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man."

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"Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good."

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"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."

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"No man can lose what he never had."

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"Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of,--a blessing that money cannot buy."

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"We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."

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"But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him; marked him for his own."

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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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"I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.""

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"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."

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"This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men."

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"'T were vain to tell thee all I feel, Or say for thee I 'd die."

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"Meet me by moonlight alone, And then I will tell you a tale Must be told by the moonlight alone, In the grove at the end of the vale!"

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"Who in life's battle firm doth stand Shall bear hope's tender blossoms Into the silent land!"

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"Into the silent land! Ah, who shall lead us thither?"

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"And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation."

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"A sudden thought strikes me,--let us swear an eternal friendship."

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"An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain, Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again; The birds singing gayly, that came at my call, Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all."

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"Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?"

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"Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But--why did you kick me down stairs?"

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"In everything one must consider the end."

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""They are too green," he said, "and only good for fools.""

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"The opinion of the strongest is always the best."

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"It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

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"The fly of the coach."

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"Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value."

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"By the work one knows the workman."

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"No path of flowers leads to glory."

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