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			 When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway
 Directs the roving trout this fatal way,
  He greedily read more 
	 When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway
 Directs the roving trout this fatal way,
  He greedily sucks in the twining bait,
   And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.
    Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!
     How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine! 
		
 
	
			 It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.  
	 It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. 
		
 
	
			 The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.  
	 The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. 
		
 
	
			 Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.  
	 Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. 
		
 
	
			 The first men that our Saviour dear
 Did choose to wait upon Him here,
  Blest fishers were; read more 
	 The first men that our Saviour dear
 Did choose to wait upon Him here,
  Blest fishers were; and fish the last
   Food was, that He on earth did taste:
    I therefore strive to follow those,
     Whom He to follow Him hath chose. 
		
 
	
			 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, 
We also go with thee. They read more 
	 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, 
We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship 
immediately; and that night they caught nothing. 
		
 
	
			 Still he fishes that catches one.  
	 Still he fishes that catches one. 
		
 
	
			 There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect 
confidence, and this is that the two read more 
	 There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect 
confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to 
any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never." 
		
 
	
			 To fish in troubled waters.  
	 To fish in troubled waters.