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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole!  Look up Godward! speak the truth in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46844]]></link><description><![CDATA[O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole!  Look up Godward! speak the truth in   Worthy song from earnest soul!    Hold, in high poetic duty,     Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, and we've already taken all the classes and shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, and we've already taken all the classes and shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33701</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><item><title><![CDATA[It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23788]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A place for everything, everything in its place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45273]]></link><description><![CDATA[A place for everything, everything in its place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir   Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield  Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan   A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell   One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb   The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her honeymoon, and that's priceless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. We have work too hard to lose the public relations battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38909]]></link><description><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. We have work too hard to lose the public relations battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled "anti-Semitic."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15869]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, and Napoleon; without science and learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and schools combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke words of life such as never were spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of any orator or poet; without writing a single line, He has set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art and sweet songs of praise, than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times. Born in a manger, and crucified as a malefactor, He now controls the destinies of the civilized world, and rules a spiritual empire which embraces one-third of the inhabitants of the globe. There never was in this world a life so unpretending, modest, and lowly in its outward form and condition, and yet producing such extraordinary effects upon all ages, nations, and classes of men. The annals of history produce no other example of such complete and astonishing success in spite of the absence of those material, social, literary, and artistic powers and influences which are indispensable to success for a mere man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46607]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54219]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're ready to play them when the puck drops, and we're expecting a battle for 60 minutes. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're ready to play them when the puck drops, and we're expecting a battle for 60 minutes. When we do play 60 minutes, we're a tough team to beat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are frequently advised to read the Bible with our own personal needs in mind, and to look for answers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are frequently advised to read the Bible with our own personal needs in mind, and to look for answers to our own private questions. That is good, as far as it goes... But better still is the advice to study the Bible objectively, ... without regard, first of all, to our own subjective needs. Let the great passages fix themselves in our memory. Let them stay there permanently, like bright beacons, launching their powerful shafts of light upon life's problems -- our own and everyone's -- as they illumine, now one, now another dark area of human life. Following such a method, we discover that the Bible does "speak to our condition" and meet our needs, not just occasionally or when some emergency arises, but continually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49487</guid></item></channel></rss>