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Quotation from The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson by Izaak Walton
“the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight”
The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Herbert (Project Gutenberg #13139 (Cassell's National Library, 1898))
His answer to a friend at Salisbury who said he had disparaged himself by helping a poor man reload a fallen horse.
Citation: "the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight" — Izaak Walton, The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Herbert (Project Gutenberg #13139 (Cassell's National Library, 1898)). (id walton-lives-q6)
Portrait: Izaak Walton, Jacob Huysmans, Public domain.
