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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45260]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear with evil, and expect good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear with evil, and expect good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as we can determine from our records, these are the first allegations of sexual abuse against him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32457]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as we can determine from our records, these are the first allegations of sexual abuse against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more thou stir it the worse it will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more thou stir it the worse it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failed the bright promise of your early day? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failed the bright promise of your early day?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18162]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus; beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47344]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31824]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in society that want to position sex as something that's taboo or dirty. What our publication does is put out the message that it's all good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kingdom of the Golden Dragon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kingdom of the Golden Dragon]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, buthe who has mastered himself is mightier still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early herbs are springing:    When the brookside, bank, and grove     All with blossom laden,      Shine with beauty, breathe of love,       Woo the timid maiden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55566]]></link><description><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a good lesson learned and we ended up winning the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28787]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a good lesson learned and we ended up winning the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done;  But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes,   Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows    A harvest of barren regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sky is the limit. Everything is so new that I think we can go as far as we want. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sky is the limit. Everything is so new that I think we can go as far as we want. We need to go out and compete day in and day out. If we do that, we give ourselves a chance to win everyday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sinful heart makes feeble hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sinful heart makes feeble hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communicate respectfully with the person. It's important parents talk to other parents and learn what questions to ask. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communicate respectfully with the person. It's important parents talk to other parents and learn what questions to ask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's never too late to give someone a a second chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's never too late to give someone a a second chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3400]]></link><description><![CDATA[And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day,  The less by night, altern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you're broken, you don't know what you're made of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you're broken, you don't know what you're made of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to my mom and dad for a word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away,  While thou must toil to gain a flight,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away,  While thou must toil to gain a flight,   And spread those pinions grey;    But when they once are fairly poised,     Far o'er each chirping thing      Thou sailest wide to other lands,       E'en sleeping on the wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the rest of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the rest of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders and rests his head on my shoulders. He's very loving and listens to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/607]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective and wants to return it for a refund. But, it's too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye  That bow'd the will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye  That bow'd the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10646</guid></item></channel></rss>