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Shakespeare on How to Avoid Codependence

Posted on June 25, 2012 by jimmie

 “There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it… For goodness, growing to a plurisy, Dies in its own too much.” (Hamlet, act 4, sc. 7) Comments. Excessive attention, excessive kindness could scare her/him away, considering that this kind of attention cannot be maintained indefinitely. Codependency Read More

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Shakespeare on Sleep as a Health-Care Remedy Take 2

Posted on June 24, 2012 by jimmie

Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care, The death of each day’s life, sole labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, Great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.” (Macbeth act 2, sc. 2) Tips for use. An addition and/or an alternative to the answer, “I just need some sleep…the innocent sleep…feast.” Also Read More

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Shakespeare on Love and Power and Life Choices

Posted on June 14, 2012 by jimmie

“He after honour hunts, I after love: He leaves his friends to dignify them more, I leave myself, my friends and all, for love.” (Two Gentlemen of Verona act 1, sc. 1) Tips for use.  Excellent explanation as to why your career is or has not been as brilliant, when compared to a successful Wall Read More

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Seven Ages of Man, take 4, the Soldier

Posted on June 12, 2012 by jimmie

“… Then a soldier, Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation, Even in the cannon mouth.” Tips for use. “Bubble reputation” applies at large and not only to those who seek it in the military. In fact, a moment of reflection will show how easily reputation, often a euphemism for Read More

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Shakespeare on Ambition, Upstarts, Lowliness as Ambition’s Ladder

Posted on June 7, 2012 by jimmie

“…’tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition’s    ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.” (Julius Caesar act 2., sc.1) Tips for use.  Sadly, a Read More

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Shakespeare on Madness, Love and Poetry

Posted on May 31, 2012 by jimmie

“The lunatic, the lover and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them into shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.” (Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 5, sc. 1) Tips for use.  These famous lines lend themselves Read More

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Shakespeare on Fate or Divinity Shaping our Life

Posted on May 17, 2012 by jimmie

“Our indiscretions sometimes serves us well, When our dear plots do pall; and that should teach us There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.” (Hamlet act 5, sc. 2)  Tips for Use.  Sometimes circumstances come to our aid without any intervention (as in this case with Hamlet). Sometimes, notwithstanding all Read More

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Shakespeare, Man as Simple Dust and a Targeted Insult

Posted on May 16, 2012 by jimmie

“And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so” (Hamlet act 2, sc. 2) Tips for Use. Hamlet may have been the quintessential pessimist. But the goriness of the recent news reaches such peaks at times as Read More

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Shakespeare and the Inevitable Passing of Time

Posted on May 12, 2012 by jimmie

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.” (SON 60) Tips for Use. What may come to mind when you are at the seashore. It helps if the beaches are not Read More

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Shakespeare on Banking

Posted on May 11, 2012 by jimmie

 “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” (Hamlet act 1, sc. 3) Tips for Use. Today Polonius would probably modify his exhortations. Rather than not borrowing or lending he would advise his son Laertes not to deal with Credit Swaps Read More

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