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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,  Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,  And gladness hides her face in scorn,  Put off the shadow from thy brow:  No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven -  The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,  The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,  But man, as man, thy brother call;  And scatter, like a circling sun,  Thy charities on all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time slots at PTIA and gave out our entire supply of posters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9770]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum  Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds are fruits, words are leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds are fruits, words are leaves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8199]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Last words, October ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Last words, October 12, 1915.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a big part of the team. It was tough on the girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38649]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a big part of the team. It was tough on the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61423]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, and contrary to Him.  ... Theologia Germanica  March 10, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine  March 11, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  In case our sins have been public and scandalous, both reason and the practice of the Christian Church do require that when men have publicly offended they should give public satisfaction and open testimony of their repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to make a change in as many people's lives as possible in their lifetime, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to make a change in as many people's lives as possible in their lifetime,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can't even get into my own pants ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can't even get into my own pants]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52480]]></link><description><![CDATA[That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Itsefficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Itsefficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which Godforgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of rain; Grateful for joy, with an endless thanksgiving, Grateful for laughter -- and grateful for pain. Lord, I am glad for the young April's wonder, Glad for the fulness of long summer days; And now when the spring and my heart are asunder, Lord, I give thanks for the dark autumn ways. Sun, bloom, and blossom, O Lord, I remember, The dream of the spring and its joy I recall; But now in the silence and pain of November, Lord, I give thanks to Thee, Giver of all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet who shall shut out Fate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet who shall shut out Fate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significance of that is that it allows us to bridge the gap between the rainy seasons. It gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significance of that is that it allows us to bridge the gap between the rainy seasons. It gives us six months' worth of supply, meeting at least up to 25 percent of the region's water demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that a new threat against a member of the PP has appeared. We will reinforce all security measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that a new threat against a member of the PP has appeared. We will reinforce all security measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love: when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude, in which he serves others voluntarily and for naught; himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and richness of his own faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66156</guid></item></channel></rss>