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Daniel Gilbert, fully Daniel Todd Gilbert, aka Professor Happiness
People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.
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Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell. Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii, Scene 13
Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. Richard II, Act iv, Scene 2
Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
Care | Future | Responsibility | World |
Cut him out in little stars. Romeo and Juliet, Act iii, Scene 2
Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, which at the first are scarce found to distaste, but with a little act upon the blood burn like the mines of sulphur. Othello, Act iii, Scene 3
DON PEDRO: Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE: Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO: You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE: So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools. Much Ado About Nothing, Act ii, Scene 1
Daniel Gilbert, fully Daniel Todd Gilbert, aka Professor Happiness
Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.
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Come, my coach! Good night, ladies, good night. Sweet ladies, good night, good night. Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at IV, v)
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Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; to sleep, perchance to dream—for in that sleep of death what dreams may come,when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause, there's the respect, that makes calamity of so long life. Hamlet, Act iii, Scene 1
Do all men kill the things they do not love? Merchant of Venice, Act iv, Scene 1
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Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't That sure th' have worn out Christendom. The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Chamberlain at I, iii)
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Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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Happy is the man who finds wisdom... Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: by that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, the image of his maker, hope to win by it? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, to silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, thy god's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, o cromwell, thou fall'st a blessed martyr! Serve the king; and,-prithee, lead me in: there take an inventory of all I have, to the last penny; 'tis the king's: my robe, and my integrity to heaven, is all i dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell! Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. Henry VIII, Act iii, Scene 2