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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22791]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Thanks to Ellen Fletcher -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58707]]></link><description><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have to have body guards yet, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have to have body guards yet,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7958]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of caring only that it be delivered; if I nurse my disappointment when I fail, instead of asking that another the word of release may be given, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8920]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,   Must kiss their own feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour,   Serves but to brighten our future days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5621]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22033]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning is the most important part of the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning is the most important part of the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51210]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29729]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16934]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10263</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[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slack, therefore, I am... doing nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until now we cannot get on the with task of disputing the illegality of the trial or any charge because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until now we cannot get on the with task of disputing the illegality of the trial or any charge because no official document has been presented so far. It's our right to see the charges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity belongs to the conquered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity belongs to the conquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end,  Fading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end,  Fading in music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8678]]></link><description><![CDATA[When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there  Only by his permission. Then beware,   That leads from earth to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give me a thousand kisses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our reaction will be painful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our reaction will be painful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody deserves forgiveness and second chances, but not for the same mistake... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody deserves forgiveness and second chances, but not for the same mistake...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early yesterday morning, Dole approached the port to see if we could do anything in advance of that 30th of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early yesterday morning, Dole approached the port to see if we could do anything in advance of that 30th of September date, and all of the agencies, all of the service providers came together and we were able to receive the ship this morning around 10:30.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18112]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63444]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60172</guid></item></channel></rss>