A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring [216] There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take nor see the lengths behind But more advanced behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales and seem to tread the sky, The eternal snows appear already passed And the first clouds and mountains seem the last. But those attained we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengthened way The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills and Alps on Alps arise!
This is a passage from An Essay on Criticism, part 2 by Alexander Pope, cited from Project Gutenberg.
The first two lines (heroic couplet) is said to be massive famous as for a pedant.
Today, I found in my family kitchen Melrose's Darjeeling tea from Edinburgh.
Watching films tonight too, I'll drink deep a cup of tea given for today.
I'll also drink up a cup of tea given for the rest of my life.
Life is simple, but the fulfilment is a serious business.
Two or three cups are not necessary.
Only a cup of tea is enough in life.

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