It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
Henry FieldingRead
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Interpretation
Tea is portrayed as a universal remedy, while love and scandal enhance its enjoyment.
In this quote, Henry Fielding illustrates the idea that tea serves as a comforting solution to various life challenges, symbolizing its place as a staple in both emotional and physical well-being. Furthermore, the mention of love and scandal as sweeteners suggests that the joys and complexities of life add flavor and richness, just like the addition of sweeteners can enhance the taste of tea.
In practice
During a tea ceremony, I shared this quote to express the role of tea in soothing stress.
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land.
I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
Whom the gods love dies young.
[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred
In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.
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