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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There was a good contrast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30681]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a good contrast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,   That it shall hold companionship in peace    With honour, as in war: since that to both     It stands in like request?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20652]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25742]]></link><description><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to die in a dignified manner, with my family all around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31345]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to die in a dignified manner, with my family all around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17454]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,    In the icy air of night,     While the stars that oversprinkle      All the Heavens seem to twinkle       With a crystalline delight:        Keeping time, time, time,         In a sort of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15885]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hopes not for good, feares not evill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49360]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209   The words "divine service" should be reassigned and no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209   The words "divine service" should be reassigned and no longer used for attending church, but only for good deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The CIS is a political collaboration, a forum of political communication, and is very useful for Georgia. But we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The CIS is a political collaboration, a forum of political communication, and is very useful for Georgia. But we are not considering the CIS from a military perspective, and our main aim is to join NATO.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And a few Friends, and many Books both true,   Both wise, and both delightful too.    And since Love ne'er will from me flee,     A mistress moderately fair,      And good as Guardian angels are,       Only belov'd and loving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no problems with the old rules, but I think taking the red line away will hopefully add to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no problems with the old rules, but I think taking the red line away will hopefully add to scoring and make the game faster, ... As a defenseman, I look at scoring negatively, but it works both ways. I wonder about the expectations though. I played in Sweden, without a red line, and I don't think the game was faster. On the other hand, I wasn't playing with the best players in the world, as in the NHL. We'll adjust to the new icing rules and in a few years we won't remember what it was like before. There's always calls for new rules, but I just hope the game doesn't change too drastically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on.  "Two souls and one thought only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25624]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on.  "Two souls and one thought only   Two hearts that throb as one."    [Ger., Mein Herz ich will dich fragen,     Was ist denn Liebe, sag?      "Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke,       Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast),  The woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25610]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast),  The woman that deliberates is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To tear each other's eyes.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that follows intellect can achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that follows intellect can achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are theanvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22669]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are theanvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5795]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   I do not think I am fanciful in discerning among some of those who most earnestly plead against the Christian social movement a feeling that there is something fundamentally intractable, inscrutable, mysterious about the world, and that no more can be hoped for than an heroic protest in the name of Christ, made in obedience but with no sort of hope that anything can come of it. I hope I am not wrong in saying that there is nothing Christian in such an attitude. It savours of the Paganism that saw behind the world a kind of ironical malice; that made Polycrates throw his ring into the sea, and called the Furies the Kindly Ones, if haply they might be so appeased.   But we stand outside this world of darkness, for we have learnt that all things were created by the eternal Word, who is Christ Jesus. We know, in the Pauline phrase, that it is in Him that the whole universal order of things consists or holds together. Those who have come to know that, know in consequence that they are in their Father's house. It is a big house, and they have begun to explore only a little of it. It has great reaches, and some of them are still shadowy. But it is His house, all of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream the impossible dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream the impossible dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   My senses with the sight of her I love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49398]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 4. the ministry of helpfulness   Active helpfulness means, initially, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 4. the ministry of helpfulness   Active helpfulness means, initially, simple assistance in trifling, external matters. There is a multitude of these things wherever people live together. Nobody is too good for the meanest service...   We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks, as the priest passed by the man who had fallen among thieves, perhaps -- reading the Bible. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised athwart our path to show us that not our way, but God's way must be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They seemed to really concentrate on Dustin and nobody else really could get hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28890]]></link><description><![CDATA[They seemed to really concentrate on Dustin and nobody else really could get hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28890</guid></item></channel></rss>