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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Future
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Samuel Johnson
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. – Samuel Johnson

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Fish, Fishing
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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime!
And there (they trust) there swimmeth One
Who swam ere rivers were begun,
Immense, of fishy form and mind,
Squamous, omnipotent, and kind. – Rupert Brooke

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Fish, Fishing

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. – Izaak Walton

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Fish, Fishing

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing. – Edward W. Howe

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Fish, Fishing

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm. – Herb Shriner

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Fish, Fishing

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When a habit begins to cost money, its called a hobby. – Yiddish Proverb

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. – Charles de Montesquieu

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Satisfaction of ones curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. – Linus Pauling

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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. – John Henry Newman

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