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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
Pericles
Time
Will
King
Men
Parent
Gives
He
Crave
Them
Grave
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Pericles
Men
Earth
Memorial
Famous
Whole
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
Pervez Musharraf
Lost
Doubt
Society
Our
No Doubt
Dead
Greater
Because
Said
Pillars
Loss
Families
Inflicted
Who
Pakistan
Suffered
We claim Islam as Deen or a complete way of life.
Pervez Musharraf
Life
Islam
Complete
Way
Claim
I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
Pervez Musharraf
Politics
Election
Politician
Think
Out
Am
Going
Cut
Stand
Certainly
The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.
Peter Fraser
Stream
Thought
Everything
Thought Process
Physical
Attempt
Unconscious
Scientific
Laboratory
Represent
Process
Manifestation
Product
Capture
Conscious
Images
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You
Will
Possible
Find
Attainable
Most
Persevere
Persist
Things
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You
Learning
People
Strike
Out
Wear
Pocket
Seem
More
Never
Merely
Wiser
Like
Learned
Private
Nor
Than
Your
Show
Watch
Pull
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Fitness
Health
Perseverance
Simple
All Things
Temperance
Dress
Rising
Variations
Retiring
Hours
Exercise
Climate
Branches
Regimen
Regularity
Things
Necessary
Adaptation
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You
Angle
Only
Bait
Sure
Praise
Modesty
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Light
Mask
First
Virtue
Sight
Deformed
Would
Seduce
Wear
Some
True
Shocks
Did
Vice
Us
Ever
Hardly
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Best
You
Inferiority
Enjoy
Friends
Your
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Love
Good
Great
Man
Quality
People
Fear
Few
Everybody
Aim
Unless
All People
Must
Admires
Share
Wit
Most
Himself
Another
Shining
Endure
Themselves
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Love
You
Extremely
Slight
Visible
Those
Distrust
Without
Very
Any
Love You
Acquaintance
Reason
Who
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You
Dark
Will
Side
Both
Clear
Hear
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Big
Too
Hurry
About
He
Him
Whoever
Shows
Thing
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Man
People
Degree
Every
Generally
He
Becomes
Converse
Certain
Certain Degree
Every Man
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Love
You
People
Fear
Pride
Ambition
Side
Once
Pity
Against
Engage
Your
Reason
Need
You must look into people as well as at them.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You
People
Must
Look
Well
Them
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Mind
Understanding
Dress
Implies
Affectation
Whatsoever
Any
Flaw
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Error
Pitied
Ridiculed
Honest
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Fashion
Person
Right
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Knowledge
People
See
Give
More
More People
Weigh
Weight
Accomplishments
Than
May
Many
Luster
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Knowledge
World
Only
Closet
Acquired
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Laughter
Manners
Characteristic
Folly
Frequent
Loud
Ill
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Experience
Mind
Other
Married
Find
More
Most
Than
Body
United
Suffers
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