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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46839]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life to-day that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin.   Let me use disappointment as material for patience:   Let me use success as material for thankfulness:   Let me use suspence as material for perseverance:   Let me use danger as material for courage:   Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering:   Let me use praise as material for humility:   Let me use pleasures as material for temperance:   Let me use pains as material for endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23982]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.   - Sir Humphrey Davy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54814]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.   - Sir Humphrey Davy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So honour peereth in the meanest habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51487]]></link><description><![CDATA[So honour peereth in the meanest habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill,  Portend success in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill,  Portend success in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33339]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings about an energy. My students work together in a better way because of the opera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19342]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt relieved. These guys are professional. They've been playing in the big leagues for years and they're used to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41378]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt relieved. These guys are professional. They've been playing in the big leagues for years and they're used to ups and downs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away;  Plucking up the weeds of sin,   Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16985]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51379]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21111]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19176]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft my guardian angel gently cried, "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see  How he persists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59440]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft my guardian angel gently cried, "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see  How he persists to knock and wait for thee!"   And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow,    "To-morrow we will open," I replied,     And when the morrow came I answered still, "To-morrow."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a vast early warning system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19391]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a vast early warning system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11107]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51692]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and drained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;  Others aver, to him, that Handel   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;  Others aver, to him, that Handel   Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.    Strange! that such high Disputes shou'd be     'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was nothing. In fact, it got me mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   He took upon Him the flesh in which we have sinned, that by wearing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   He took upon Him the flesh in which we have sinned, that by wearing our flesh He might forgive sins; a flesh which He shares with us by wearing it, not by sinning in it. He blotted out through death the sentence of death, that by a new creation of our race in Himself He might sweep away the penalty appointed by the former Law... For Scripture had foretold that He who is God should die; that the victory and triumph of them that trust in Him lay in the fact that He, who is immortal and cannot be overcome by death, was to die that mortals might gain eternity. (Continued tomorrow)   ... St. Hilary, On the Trinity  November 2, 2000 Feast of All Souls   In this calm assurance of safety did my soul gladly and hopefully take its rest, and feared so little the interruption of death, that death seemed only a name for eternal life. And the life of this present body was so far from seeming a burden or affliction that it was regarded as children regard their alphabets, sick men their draughts, shipwrecked sailors their swim, young men the training for their profession, future commanders their first campaign -- that is, as an endurable submission to present necessities, bearing the promise of a blissful immortality.   ... St. Hilary, On the Trinity  November 3, 2000 Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   People make mistakes when they believe. They may even want something so badly that passion creates its own evidences. Reprehensible though these habits are, they nonetheless fall within the pale of man's general effort to conform the self to things as they are. But when a person acknowledges the deficiency of evidences and yet goes right on believing, he defends a position that is large with the elements of its own destruction. Any brand of inanity can be defended on such a principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14199]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26825]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4141]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36982]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36982</guid></item></channel></rss>