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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I ran a post, ran straight past the safety and when I saw the ball in the air, I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran a post, ran straight past the safety and when I saw the ball in the air, I knew it was over after that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3128]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43597]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade,   The squirrel chattering overhead,    The timid rabbits lighter tread     Among the rustling leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good. Concealing his sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and encouraging him to descend. The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape. If, said he, you will place your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I will run up your back and escape, and will help you out afterwards. The Goat readily assented and the Fox leaped upon his back. Steadying himself with the Goat's horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could. When the Goat upbraided him for breaking his promise, he turned around and cried out, You foolish old fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape. Look before you leap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind,   Sweeping the sea floors white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the guts to invite someone like this and put on a show. And to do it, it takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29938]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the guts to invite someone like this and put on a show. And to do it, it takes the whole town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy. There we are required, not to cast the world from us, but to do our best for all others as well as ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65447]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, who has to help them discern for themselves the will of God for their real work in the real world. It will often be his duty, therefore, to establish a certain economy in the internal life of the Church, so that people are released to give time and energy to fulfilment of their Christian duty in the worlds of industry or politics or business or professional life, where their most determinative decisions have to be taken. A new puritanism is urgently needed in most churches, which cuts away ruthlessly from their life all organizations and activities which prevent their members from grappling with their real task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A frequent intercession with God, earnestly beseeching Him to forgive the sins of all mankind, to bless them with His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7442]]></link><description><![CDATA[A frequent intercession with God, earnestly beseeching Him to forgive the sins of all mankind, to bless them with His providence, enlighten them with His Spirit, and bring them to everlasting happiness, is the divinest exercise that the heart of man can be engaged in. Be daily, therefore, on your knees, in a solemn deliberate performance of this devotion, praying for others in such forms, with such length, importunity, and earnestness, as you use for yourself; and you will find all little, ill-natured passions die away, your heart grow great and generous, delighting in the common happiness of others, as you used only to delight in your own... It was this holy intercession that raised Christians to such a state of mutual love, as far exceeded all that had been praised and admired in human friendship. And when the same spirit of intercession is again in the world, when Christianity has the same power over the hearts of people that it then had, this holy friendship will be again in fashion, and Christians will be again the wonder of the world, for that exceeding love which they bear to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16976]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20965]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance   From those who know thee not!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  To me there is a much more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  To me there is a much more frightening ignorance in our modern world than the "ignorance of the heathen". I am referring to the almost total ignorance of the content and implication of the Christian Faith shown by many "clever" people today. Frankly, I find it horrifying to discover that men who are experts in their own line -- in astronomy, genetics, or nuclear physics, for example -- have no adult knowledge of what the Church of Christ stands for, and a complete blank ignorance of what the Church is achieving today. It is the more horrifying because people who rightly respect the expert for his knowledge in his own field have no idea that he has not carefully examined and reluctantly discarded Christianity; but in all probability he has never studied it at all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20996]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parliament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parliament with his head hung low, apologizing for something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action -- you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things... You are not called to get to heaven, to do good, or to be good -- you are called to belong to Jesus Christ. The doing good, the being good, and the getting to heaven, are the by-products of that belonging. The center of conversion is the belonging of a person to a Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; in the hour of need He was forsaken by acquaintances and left by friends to the depths of scorn. He was willing to suffer and to be despised; do you dare to complain of anything? He had enemies and defamers; do you want everyone to be your friend, your benefactor? How can your patience be rewarded if no adversity tests it? How can you be a friend of Christ if you are not willing to suffer any hardship? Suffer with Christ and for Christ if you wish to reign with Him.  Had you but once entered into perfect communion with Jesus or tasted a little of His ardent love, you would care nothing at all for your own comfort or discomfort but would rejoice in the reproach you suffer; for love of Him makes a man despise himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37937]]></link><description><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10535]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping he's still alive. We're hoping for the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40944]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping he's still alive. We're hoping for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36438]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897   People talk about special providences. I believe in the providences, but not in the speciality. I do not believe that God lets the thread of my affairs go for six days, and on the seventh evening takes it up for a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813</guid></item></channel></rss>