"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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Source : Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1808). “The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:”, p.102

Izaak Walton

#Doubt Quotes #Rewards Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.”
“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.”
“Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.”

Source : 1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 1, sc.1.
“You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.”
“The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."...So, what breaks your heart?”
“The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the Oâ€™s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girlâ€™s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.”

Source : Eric Gill (1944). “Autobiography”
“There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.”
“If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don`t actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.”

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