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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in the world, he was so far from wondering at them that, on the contrary, he was surprised that there were not more, considering the malice sinners were capable of... For his part, he prayed for them: but, knowing that God could remedy the mischiefs they did, when He pleased, he gave himself no further trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work  Until the day's out and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work  Until the day's out and the labour done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can achieve this, but if we cannot, I have no choice but to secure a military solution. I will do so with a heavy heart, for even with the most careful plan, there will be some loss of innocent lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24941]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Indian saying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10966]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  To realize that you are safe and happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  To realize that you are safe and happy standing at God's side, with His love encompassing you because you are forgiven; too happy to take offense any more; too much in love with life to want to be made miserable with an unforgiving heart, and knowing that now every conflict is a chance to learn more of the exceeding beauty of Love: that is worth living for, and surely worth dying to this misery-making self for. [Continued tomorrow]  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  February 5, 1998  And let us be grateful beyond words for this: that God will not let us alone until we have learnt it and stand by His side. He troubles us, He brings His disturbing light back and back to us, showing us how coarse and heavy the dying self, seeking her own, is; how horrible it is that any feeling of unforgiveness, accepted and held on to, towards our brother, drives God from our side; how quickly we must do all we can to heal the separation, because we are out in the cold and the dark indeed, if divorced from that Love.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  February 6, 1998  Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597  Prayer is the expression of a good desire. The human heart is full of restless desires, and the prayers of men consist for the most part of the unsifted petitions which are urged by their varying passions. To desire what is right, and to desire it consistently, and passionately, is the first condition of true living; the desires can be corrected only by truth, the mind must apprehend God, and then it will say, "There is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who willreally accomplish great things in life are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who willreally accomplish great things in life are those who are willing todiscipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, theirefficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they takeinto their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing interms of championship living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5448]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a great year for me and the team. I have a super group of girls here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37470]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a great year for me and the team. I have a super group of girls here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42915]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55335]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the lea   That's the way for Billy and me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms   And the sky is held in the water.    What is water,     That pours silver,      And can hold the sky?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51299]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. -Mother Teresa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26331]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. -Mother Teresa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.   ... William Wilberforce, A Practical View  July 31, 2000 Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One need not obey the rulesif he abandons a meaningless or cruel game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16704]]></link><description><![CDATA[One need not obey the rulesif he abandons a meaningless or cruel game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66128]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only February and we don't expect Greg to be running the way he was last May, but were anxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only February and we don't expect Greg to be running the way he was last May, but were anxious to see how he does outdoors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High drug costs are already forcing people to cut their pills, take less and sometimes not even be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40902]]></link><description><![CDATA[High drug costs are already forcing people to cut their pills, take less and sometimes not even be able to fill their prescriptions at all. Eliminating 'wrap around' coverage is a harsh move that will deny drugs to our state's most vulnerable populations - we urge the Legislature to reject the Governor's proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50745]]></link><description><![CDATA[My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50745</guid></item></channel></rss>