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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade;  Where rumor of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade;  Where rumor of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49387]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was regularly used as a propaganda medium... is full of the characteristic motifs of Advent and Epiphany, celebrating the blessings which the manifestation of each successive divine emperor was to bring to a waiting world. Among the adulatory formulas with which the emperor was acclaimed, Prof. Ethelbert Stauffer mentions, as going back to the first century, "Hail, Victory, Lord of the earth, Invincible, Power, Glory, Honour, Peace, Security, Holy, Blessed, Unequalled, Great, Thou alone worthy art, Worthy is he to inherit the Kingdom, Come, come, do not delay, Come again" (p. 155) [in Christ and the Caesars]. Indeed, one has only to read Psalm lxxii, in Latin, in the official language of the empire, to see that it is largely the same formal language which is used alike in the Forum for the advent of the emperor, and in the catacombs for the celebration of the "Epiphany of Christ" (p. 251). Who was worthy to ascend the throne of the universe and direct the course of history? Caesar, or Jesus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such but is going to at least give a chance of registering in the minds of the Iranian people that what their president is doing is unacceptable to the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7258]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the West Coast. I think this industry has some rocky roads ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54173]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a great job in Headland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and what you want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and what you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marathon can humble you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marathon can humble you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout,  Church, army, physic, law,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62202]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout,  Church, army, physic, law,   Its customs and its businesses,    Is no concern at all of his,     And says--what says he?--Caw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can keep this up and carry it on the good road ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can keep this up and carry it on the good road ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin' you along]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as life in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is room left also for several to bring their friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50366]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is room left also for several to bring their friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26229]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in, And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve,  Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62156]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in, And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve,  Then is the day of crumbling not far off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing the West Side stadium gave Shelly Silver a new image as a populist defender of his constituency. Bruno is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing the West Side stadium gave Shelly Silver a new image as a populist defender of his constituency. Bruno is a winner because he is as strong - if not stronger - than Gov. Pataki with Republicans, because he is going to be around in New York while Pataki is a lame duck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an amazing feeling to have, I find it very hard to believe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29670]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an amazing feeling to have, I find it very hard to believe,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sucker born every minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sucker born every minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10521]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carries well, to whom it waighes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49312]]></link><description><![CDATA[He carries well, to whom it waighes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49312</guid></item></channel></rss>