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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57699]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we  Will drink to him, whate'er he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we  Will drink to him, whate'er he be,   And sing the songs he loved to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387   What art Thou then, my God? What, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387   What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the Proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and over-spreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53823]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46632]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia] for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60635]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46014]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46014</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[Dating to just over four million years ago, the fossils represent unambiguous evidence for human evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dating to just over four million years ago, the fossils represent unambiguous evidence for human evolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes,   Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46473]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36373]]></link><description><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing tenacious defense, predicated on great guard play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13779]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16990]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dainties love shall beggars prove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation plants trees, and the next enjoys the shade. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no true orator who is not a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45232]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no true orator who is not a hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning andlo! Your purse is magnificently filled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning andlo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufacturedtissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of yourpossessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12926]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical idiots?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this, and Heaven too! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19097]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this, and Heaven too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19097</guid></item></channel></rss>