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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to be holy, a means to the integration of character for those who cannot bear their conflicts. It is a statement of the divine intention for humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end.  Courage--an independent spark from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end.  Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,   By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.    Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,     Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.      Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,       By which those great in war, are great in love.        The spring of all brave acts is seated here,         As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brighter than Parian marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brighter than Parian marble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45914]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're out there hiking with the girls at 5:30 and you see the other girls working out just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're out there hiking with the girls at 5:30 and you see the other girls working out just as hard as you are and panting and puffing ... you feel like you have to go on because they're going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames,  And before her bows the wavelets dark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames,  And before her bows the wavelets dark   Break into a thousand gems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages.  A golden mind stoops not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17141]]></link><description><![CDATA[This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages.  A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;   I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness, long life, and health, are the common desire of most men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness, long life, and health, are the common desire of most men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51604]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will not live without answers to his questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will not live without answers to his questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,  And humbler growths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,  And humbler growths as moved with one desire   Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire,    Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay     With his red stalks upon this sunny day!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be pointless. We have only three trains (between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.), and they arrive roughly every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41657]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be pointless. We have only three trains (between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.), and they arrive roughly every 30 minutes. If PATH ran every six minutes, nobody from Metro-North would be getting on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flownaturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids grow so much in their four years here, and there's certain things we'd like to think the program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35023]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids grow so much in their four years here, and there's certain things we'd like to think the program stands for. Tonight, you saw the efforts of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The very activities for which we were created are, while we live on earth, variously impeded: by evil in ourselves or in others. Not to practice them is to abandon our humanity. To practice them spontaneously and delightfully is not yet possible. This situation creates the category of duty, the whole specifically moral realm. It exists to be transcended. Here is the paradox of Christianity. As practical imperatives for here and now, the two great commandments have to be translated "Behave as if you loved God and man". For no man can love because he is told to. Yet obedience on this practical level is not really obedience at all. And if a man really loved God and man, once again this would hardly be obedience; for if he did, he would be unable to help it. Thus the command really says to us, "Ye must be born again". Till then, we have duty, morality, the Law. A schoolmaster, as St. Paul says, is to bring us to Christ. We must expect no more of it than of a schoolmaster; we must allow it no less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4969]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played with no subs. We just had 11 girls on the field and I thought that they played really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played with no subs. We just had 11 girls on the field and I thought that they played really hard and pretty well right through to the end of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As, then, a consummate master teaches both by example and by precept, so Christ taught the obedience, which good men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6915]]></link><description><![CDATA[As, then, a consummate master teaches both by example and by precept, so Christ taught the obedience, which good men are to render even at the cost of death, by Himself first dying in rendering it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best of the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47442]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appetite nor restrain lust nor subdue a passion nor cross his covetousness and ambition for the sake of it, and in hope of that eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised. He that refuses to do the less is not like to do the greater. It is very improbable that a man will die for his religion, when he cannot be persuaded to live according to it. He that cannot take up a resolution to live a saint, hath a demonstration within himself that he is never like to die a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt  Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,  Hangs silent on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27455]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,  Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27455</guid></item></channel></rss>