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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, stemming from Johannite monasticism, than one of its most recent examples, Father de Foucauld. If he went out to the Ahaggar plateau, it was not only to find but also to proclaim God, thereby teaching the gospel in a way which desert people could understand. After his death, the example set by this hermit was followed by others who, far from settling in the desert places of the Sahara, set out to mingle with the peopled deserts of the great cities, there to preach the gospel by their example and their very presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Street Sweep . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Street Sweep .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26445]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's looking like more of an electrical issue, but we are still waiting for the official word from the state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33804]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's looking like more of an electrical issue, but we are still waiting for the official word from the state fire marshal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at allTogether we stand, divided we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at allTogether we stand, divided we fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the nectar, the hummingbird, the clover. You are the bloom, thebee, the OerHoverer. You are the child, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43180]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the nectar, the hummingbird, the clover. You are the bloom, thebee, the OerHoverer. You are the child, the bond and the mother. Youare the Love, the Beloved, the Lover.(to our mother).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33275]]></link><description><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information on housing, registration, financial aid and other Northeastern logistics and contact details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4958]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unto the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unto the spiritual things of the Gospel; but a profluency of speech, venting itself on all occasions and on no occasions, making men open their mouths wide when indeed they should shut them and open their ears, and to pour out all that they know and ... what they do not know, making them angry if they are not heard and impatient if they are contradicted, is an unconquerable fortification against all true spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told;  Many a man his life hath sold; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61425]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told;  Many a man his life hath sold;   But my outside to behold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music - not only across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35219]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music - not only across genres but across generations as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By broadening their programming (with more entertainment-oriented shows) and still keeping it under the legal drama umbrella that their niche ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30405]]></link><description><![CDATA[By broadening their programming (with more entertainment-oriented shows) and still keeping it under the legal drama umbrella that their niche is, they've been able to generate higher ratings. They've certainly raised the profile in the buying community with these types of programs, and to separate the two helps distinguish one from the other, so you have an entertainment network that's still Court TV with legal type of programming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise is most given when the least is said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring,   So screams a goose where swans melodious sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send not a Catt for Lard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send not a Catt for Lard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for material things. We sadly undervalue prayer when we conceive it in these terms, just as we should underestimate rain by describing it as something that fills the birdbath in our garden. Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality -- the ultimate integration of man's highest faculties. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42843</guid></item></channel></rss>