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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52011]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van may have fallen asleep,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work at it night and day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work at it night and day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore  The tone of languid Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore  The tone of languid Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards any agreement or unity, it must be by fixing this principle in the minds of all men -- that it is of no advantage to any man whatever church or way in Christian religion he be of, unless he personally believe the promises, and live in obedience unto all the precepts of Christ; and that for him who doth so, it is a trampling of the whole gospel under foot to say that his salvation could be endangered by his not being of this or that church or way, especially considering how much of the world hath inmixed itself into all the known ways that are in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7079]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the friend who was once your foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the friend who was once your foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no exemption for Germany, and we will consider the case, as well as the French case, later, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38000]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no exemption for Germany, and we will consider the case, as well as the French case, later,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There weren't any great performances, but we won it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36501]]></link><description><![CDATA[There weren't any great performances, but we won it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should wait patiently until tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should wait patiently until tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/99]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/99</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/858]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45782]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   Will know the reason why!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is pleasure after pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, how the stream has overflowed Its banks, and o'er the meadow road  Is spreading far and wide! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4923]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, how the stream has overflowed Its banks, and o'er the meadow road  Is spreading far and wide!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4923</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/9326]]></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/9326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52349]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You grow up the first day you have your first good laugh-at yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21943]]></link><description><![CDATA[You grow up the first day you have your first good laugh-at yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1006]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the color of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the color of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17468</guid></item></channel></rss>