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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52213]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of spirit as to God, His nature, and works. (2) The glorifying of God is the great work of God's children. (3) Delightful privacy with God argues strong affection. (4) Frequent prayer an argument of much of God's Spirit; true prayer is the pouring out of the heart to God; God's children are most in private with God; the prayers of God's people most respect spiritual mercies; God's people wait for and rest in God's answer. (5) God's people are sensible of their unworthiness. (6) God Himself is regarded as the portion of His people. (7) Ready obedience to God. (8) The patience of God's children under God's hand. (9) The mournful confession of God's people. (10) God's people long after God in an open profession of His ordinances. (11) Their hearts are ready and prepared. (12) God's people's sense of their own insufficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61371]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at your board,   Without one hour of sickness or disgust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva, into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4305]]></link><description><![CDATA[May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be within you may your heart be strong. May you find what you're seeking wherever you roam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so a teammate could wrestle in the region. He could have had an easier time qualifying for the state at 189, but you have to admire someone who puts their teammates first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53220]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of homework, and I have some I need to do while I'm doing the play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of homework, and I have some I need to do while I'm doing the play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful,  From all old flower fields ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54922]]></link><description><![CDATA[We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful,  From all old flower fields of the soul;   And, weary seeker of the best,    We come back laden from out quest,     To find that all the sages said      Is in the Book our mothers read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/541]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate him to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate him to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you go on the road, it's tough. Our kids have fared well away from home and have done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you go on the road, it's tough. Our kids have fared well away from home and have done a good job of getting ready each week and coming out fired up and ready to play. I don't expect anything different now, because our kids have stepped up in the big games. That's something you've got to be able to do in this district, and we can't go in worried about the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the same as you, we can sing, we can speak different languages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,  Wanting the scythe, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,  Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,   Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems    But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs,     Losing both beauty and utility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9833]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a group is able to underwrite the cost of catering an event, we would encourage them to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31084]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a group is able to underwrite the cost of catering an event, we would encourage them to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   As Christians, and followers of Jesus, we have not taken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   As Christians, and followers of Jesus, we have not taken pride half seriously enough. But the Devil has. The Devil knows that as long as he can control human pride it does not matter how many prayer meetings, how many services, how much devotion goes on -- he can still wrack any group of Christians, sooner or later, and frustrate God's purpose for them, and for the world.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn August 11, 1999 Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   Never... think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various kinds of temptations, and tried on every side. Integrity on one side of our character is no voucher for integrity on another. We cannot tell how we should act if brought under temptations different from those we have hitherto experienced. This thought should keep us humble. We are sinners, but we do not know how great. He alone knows who died for our sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14608]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50988]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46044]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20551]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5394</guid></item></channel></rss>