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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What wound did ever heal but my degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62369]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wound did ever heal but my degrees?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22249]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   The attitude of Jesus to the Jewish law was singularly free and unembarrassed. He made full use of it as an impressive statement of high ethical ideals; even its ritual practices He treated with perfect tolerance where they did not conflict with fundamental moral obligations. From Pharisaic formalism He appealed to the relative simplicity of the venerable written Law. But again from the written Law itself He appealed to the basic rights and duties of humanity: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; the Law might permit the dissolution of marriage, but there was something more deeply rooted in the nature of things which forbade it; the [law of retaliation], the central principle of legal justice, must go overboard in the interest of the holy impulse to love your neighbor, not merely as yourself, but as God has loved you. Such freehanded dealing meant that the whole notion of morality as a code of rules, with sanctions of rewards and punishments, was abandoned. But the average Christian was slow to see this implication. For instance, Jesus had taken fasting out of the class of meritorious acts, and given it a place only as the fitting and spontaneous expression of certain spiritual states. This is what an early authoritative catechism of the Church made of His teaching: "Let not your fast be made with the hypocrites, for they fast on Monday and Thursday; ye therefore shall fast on Wednesday and Friday." It sounds ludicrous, but we may ask, Was it not on some very similar principle that the Church did actually carry through its reconstruction of "religious observance"? And a Church which so perverted Christ's treatment of the ritual law proved itself almost equally incapable of understanding His drastic revision of the moral law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44735]]></link><description><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. I treat it like a battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43701]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabicto the Arabs.spoken on the Terry Gross Show.. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace groupPeace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49686]]></link><description><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hole calls the thiefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hole calls the thiefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41619]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. [Lat., Non ampliter, sed munditer convivium; plus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. [Lat., Non ampliter, sed munditer convivium; plus salis quam sumptus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20236]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25332]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A drummer is usually like the backbone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A drummer is usually like the backbone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60245]]></link><description><![CDATA[No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always heard of the Fringe and of the quality of the shows, and I always wanted to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always heard of the Fringe and of the quality of the shows, and I always wanted to be a part of it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64475]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.   - James Anthony Froude, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.   - James Anthony Froude,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market didn't like his lines about inflation. Overall, the speech was extremely well balanced . . . The market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market didn't like his lines about inflation. Overall, the speech was extremely well balanced . . . The market is just focusing on one or two lines out of the entire speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58311]]></link><description><![CDATA[True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  In some communities there remains, as a vestige of a false conception of the church building, a resistance to the sale and purchase of books on a table... anywhere on the premises. When this position is expressed, it must be attacked directly and unapologetically, because it represents a genuine evil, ... the idolatry of bricks and mortar, a heresy specifically undermined by the Apostle Paul in Athens when he said, "The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man" (Acts 17:24). The notion that it is perfectly all right to sell a New Testament in the department store on Monday, but that it is wrong to sell it in the meetinghouse on Sunday, represents a confusion so great that it is truly appalling. As Christians, we believe in the Real Presence, but it is a severe denial of the divine power to claim that this Presence is limited geographically. If, in a building dedicated to worship, a seeker buys a book on Sunday morning and his life is deepened in consequence, the only important thing to say is that the Gospel has thereby been preached, and this is one of the major tasks of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635]]></link><description><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49369]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60927]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's got all my focus right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39528]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's got all my focus right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown;  She bears the glamour of one star  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown;  She bears the glamour of one star   Upon her violet crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge   Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This change in our name better reflects who we are and where we are going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33004]]></link><description><![CDATA[This change in our name better reflects who we are and where we are going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, where you can actually take a wheelchair, go down ramps and go into the Pacific Ocean and touch the urchins and the starfish. That really impressed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever, therefore, is foolish, ridiculous, vain, or earthly, or sensual, in the life of a Christian is something that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever, therefore, is foolish, ridiculous, vain, or earthly, or sensual, in the life of a Christian is something that ought not to be there; it is a spot and a defilement that must be washed away with tears of repentance. But if anything of this kind runs all through the course of our life, if we allow ourselves in things that are either vain, foolish, or sensual, we renounce our profession. For as sure as Jesus Christ was wisdom and holiness, as sure as He came to make us like Himself and to be baptized into His Spirit, so sure is it that none can be said to keep to their Christian profession but they who, to the utmost of their power, live a wise and holy and heavenly life. This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57341</guid></item></channel></rss>