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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066]]></link><description><![CDATA[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brother is a friend provided by nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brother is a friend provided by nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no more our verse would scrawl,   For Shakespeare he had said it all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is the cohesion of music and dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reticence is a great gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reticence is a great gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds grow high; Impending tempests charge the sky;  The lightning flies, the thunder roars;   And big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds grow high; Impending tempests charge the sky;  The lightning flies, the thunder roars;   And big waves lash the frightened shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of his mouth and took wing from the room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his mouth, and in his heart... A man does not carry it in his heart that does not love it with all his soul; and nobody loves it as he ought, that does not conform to it in his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11189]]></link><description><![CDATA[For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Boone and Latham) are game players. Those two tie our inside and outside together. They did their jobs well down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41229]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Boone and Latham) are game players. Those two tie our inside and outside together. They did their jobs well down the stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29535]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was not there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a hole in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a hole in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22360]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many men, so many opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51734]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many men, so many opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is definitely a big catch, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34268]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is definitely a big catch,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26166]]></link><description><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59621]]></link><description><![CDATA[They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us. [Lat., Coelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.  Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque   Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14815]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17664]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,   And make a checkered shadow on the ground;    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,     And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,      Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,       As if a double hunt were heard at once,        Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;         And after conflict such as was supposed          The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,           When with a happy storm they were surprised,            And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,             We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,              Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,               Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds                Be unto us as is a nurse's song                 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[head of international mafia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36708]]></link><description><![CDATA[head of international mafia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave not a rack behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the old three-cornered hat    And the breeches and all that     Are so queer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2992]]></link><description><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,   That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him;    Yet nor the lays of birds, not the sweet smell     Of different flowers in odor and in hue,      Could make me any summer's story tell,       Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:        Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,         Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;          They were but sweet, but figures of delight,           Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.            Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,             As with your shadow I with these did play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know,  To make men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/608]]></link><description><![CDATA[To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know,  To make men happy, and to keep them so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get anything out of them these days. And I am talking about stuff that has historically been readily disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the major battle ground in the negotiations and we have won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29615]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the major battle ground in the negotiations and we have won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58199</guid></item></channel></rss>