I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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Topic

Fishing Taking it easy Work-life balance

Author

Izaak Walton

Source

The Compleat Angler

Medium

Treatise

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1653 1650s 17th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, introduction.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, introduction.

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In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

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Original Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

Current Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Learning from mistakes Mistakes Excess Wisdom

Author

William Blake
Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
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Original Citation

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Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.