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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40226</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[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24613]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to open it up more for other kids to be threats. ... We need to get consistency from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to open it up more for other kids to be threats. ... We need to get consistency from other kids to pick their game up to another level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I married beneath me. All women do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I married beneath me. All women do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have more than one counsel in every country claiming to represent him. This can lead to conflicting legal opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28223]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have more than one counsel in every country claiming to represent him. This can lead to conflicting legal opinion that may damage the interest of the client.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man knows more than he understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man knows more than he understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance,  Make not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance,  Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly   That feeds on dung is colored thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's our heart and soul. The kids look to her for floor leadership. Even for a young player, she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28599]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's our heart and soul. The kids look to her for floor leadership. Even for a young player, she has put this team on her back and hit big shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There is one growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There is one growing persuasion of the present age which I hope this book may somewhat serve to stem -- not by any argument, but by... a healthy up stirring ... of the imagination and the conscience. In these days, when men are so gladly hearing afresh that "in Him there is no darkness at all"; that God, therefore could not have created any man if He knew that he must live in torture to all eternity; and that His hatred to evil cannot be expressed by injustice, itself the one essence of evil, -- for certainly it would be nothing less than injustice to punish infinitely what was finitely committed, no sinner being capable of understanding the abstract enormity of what he does, -- in these days has a arisen another falsehood, less, yet very perilous: thousands of half-thinkers imagine that, since it is declared with such authority that hell is not everlasting, there is then no hell at all. To such folly, I, for one, have never given enticement or shelter. I see no hope for many, no way for the divine love to reach them, save through a very ghastly hell. Men have got to repent; there is no other escape for them, and no escape from that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4179]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence is a commitment to achieving the values derivable from life with other people in society, by treating them as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence is a commitment to achieving the values derivable from life with other people in society, by treating them as potential trading partners, recognizing their humanity, independence, and individuality, and the harmony between their interests and ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. But one of them who was exceedingly old (for many a field had he plowed) thus spoke: These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers should perish, yet will men never want beef. Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has a campus atmosphere, where employees are able to bounce ideas off each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has a campus atmosphere, where employees are able to bounce ideas off each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're really serious about it and if you want your gear to last, you need to spend more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38488]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're really serious about it and if you want your gear to last, you need to spend more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the central truth of Christ as Lord and Saviour; an ethical system will not save us here, nor a timid sentimentalism, nor an excited emotional return, nor a dilettante mysticism. We have to find that deep contrition which is the condition of His abiding. Repentance is not a mere feeling of sorrow or contrition for an act of wrongdoing. The regret I feel when I act impatiently or speak crossly is not repentance... Repentance is contrition for what we are in our fundamental beings, that we are wrong in our deepest roots because our internal government is by Self and not by God. And it is an activity of the whole person. Unless I will to be different, the mind will not follow. True repentance brings an urge to be different, because of the sense of the incessant movement of what I am, forming, forming, forming what I shall be in the years to come.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  January 11, 1996 Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it was because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59040]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374]]></link><description><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian knowledge, a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction; or whether that, instruction should be imparted to them by a translation of the holy-books into their own language. If obedience to the will of GOD be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself. He, that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a light-house, might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks. (Continued tomorrow)   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 13, 2002   Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, so no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good. To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity [i.e., the Bible], in compliance with any purposes that terminate this side of the grave, is a crime [the like] of which I know not that the world has yet had an example.   ... a letter from Samuel Johnson to William Drummond of Edinburgh, 1766  July 14, 2002 Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The "good" man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life's ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and the keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable; but, as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is self-centered. That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the interception, we wanted to stick with what was safe at the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37699]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the interception, we wanted to stick with what was safe at the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38093]]></link><description><![CDATA[His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the Baldrige.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, through the deepening shadows of death's night, Men see an open door ... beyond it, light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49256]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true function of art is to...edit nature and so make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true function of art is to...edit nature and so make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-penciling the bad spelling of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never had a sore arm or sore leg in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never had a sore arm or sore leg in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29601]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... because the camera crew was literally bolted in. You can't get out; you can't go up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9104]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In His will is our peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53764]]></link><description><![CDATA[In His will is our peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4865]]></link><description><![CDATA[God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned just enough in school to figure out that everything is not all there is to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1437</guid></item></channel></rss>