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Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among t

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence…. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. – Okakura Kakuzō

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Tea with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life…. Teaism was Taoism in disguise. – Okakura Kakuzō

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In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely…. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius… – Okakura Kakuzō

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Tea is the symbol of and antidote to civilization. – Terri Guillemets

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In vino Veritas. In Aqua satietas. In… What is the Latin for Tea? What! Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. – Hilaire Belloc, “On Tea,” 1908

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Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher. – Chinese Proverb

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Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure. – George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903

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