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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world   Than calling it at moments back to this.    The busy have no time for tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Continuing a short series about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Continuing a short series about the early church:   The life of the early Church lay in constant intercommunication between all its parts; its health and growth were dependent on the free circulation of the life-blood of common thought and feeling. Hence it was firmly seated first on the great lines of communication across the empire, leading from its origin in Jerusalem to its imperial center in Rome. It had already struck root in Rome within little more than twenty years after the Crucifixion, and it had become really strong in the great city about thirty years after the Apostles began to look round and out from Jerusalem. This marvelous development was possible only because the seed of the new thought floated free on the main currents of communication, which were ever sweeping back and forward between the heart of the Empire and its outlying members. Paul, who mainly directed the great movement, threw himself boldly and confidently into the life of the time; he took the Empire as it was, accepted its political conformation and arrangement, and sought only to touch the spiritual and moral life of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well done is better than well said. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well done is better than well said. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22640]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, never, never, never give up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, never, never, never give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the tyrant of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the tyrant of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2439]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I can go harder out there now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I can go harder out there now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26685]]></link><description><![CDATA[God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49398]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45757]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't waste your youth growing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't waste your youth growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think these women had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's against the law in California to secretly videotape employees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think these women had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's against the law in California to secretly videotape employees while they're changing clothes, and there's no exception in the law for Hooters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower,  Before milk-white, now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower,  Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,   And maidens call it love-in-idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24233]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25977]]></link><description><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   When I trouble myself over a trifle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   When I trouble myself over a trifle, even a trifle confessed -- the loss of some little article, say -- spurring my memory, and hunting the house, not from immediate need, but from dislike of loss; when a book has been borrowed of me and is not returned, and I have forgotten the borrower; and fret over the missing volume, ... is it not time that I lost a few things, when I care for them so unreasonably? This losing of things is the mercy of God: it comes to teach us to let them go. Or have I forgotten a thought that came to me, which seemed of the truth? I keep trying and trying to call it back, feeling a poor man until that thought be recovered -- to be far more lost, perhaps, in a notebook into which I shall never look again to find it! I forget that it is live things that God cares about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the best for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62136</guid></item></channel></rss>