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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was determined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.  Its use: to turn our will to His will.  Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198</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[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57129]]></link><description><![CDATA["I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour without profit is a ring on the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV can be so fluid. If you can get a hot show or two you can build around that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30409]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV can be so fluid. If you can get a hot show or two you can build around that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will pardon me. It is his trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24143]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will pardon me. It is his trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You go in there and prepare and play the best you can and play hard, and it'd be big for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41877]]></link><description><![CDATA[You go in there and prepare and play the best you can and play hard, and it'd be big for the school, our fans, our families, the community, to go in and beat a No. 1 team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55372]]></link><description><![CDATA[So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17887]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22131]]></link><description><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind  Sweeps the broad forest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind  Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime,   As when some master-hand exulting sweeps    The keys of some great organ, ye give forth     The music of the woodland depths, a hymn      Of gladness and of thanks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own conscience no guilty man is acquitted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own conscience no guilty man is acquitted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe women have played major roles, both tangible or intangible, in the imperial family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe women have played major roles, both tangible or intangible, in the imperial family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55607]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26122]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First come, first served. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13175]]></link><description><![CDATA[First come, first served.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61335]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arouse the mind without resting it on anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were  martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that we are operating appropriately and effectively in the current setting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that we are operating appropriately and effectively in the current setting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9078</guid></item></channel></rss>