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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the patient, so the great test of preaching is that it converts and builds up the hearers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been preparing for this moment for along time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been preparing for this moment for along time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, which are too narrow; you are playing at about a hundred miles a minute. But somehow they don't. As long as they don't you know you're all right. You're going good, well-oiled like an engine. Not too much sweat, not too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a little thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful?  Or is the adder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23127]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful?  Or is the adder better than the eel   Because his painted skin contents the eye?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16983]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate on her hand,   Can health, wealth, and long life command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field in accordance with these rules, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Mother Nature. You can't control it. Coming off a win (Friday) night, it would have been nice to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Mother Nature. You can't control it. Coming off a win (Friday) night, it would have been nice to go out there and get this game in tonight and have a good series here. It's out of our hands as far as the weather goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29844]]></link><description><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  Every man has in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  Every man has in his own experience some knowledge of the perplexing uncertainty of this whirligig of time. Yet with his best thought, and largest opportunity, and the application of his highest ability, he cannot penetrate far. But the Christ of God unfolds both its meaning, and its order. He shows that the goal is freedom, and the guidance love. In this way Christ appears direct to the spirit of man, not by its special acquirements, or special ability, but through its common needs and common tasks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2583]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he continues to do what he's doing and continues to progress, there's no reason that midway in the season ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28632]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he continues to do what he's doing and continues to progress, there's no reason that midway in the season you couldn't call up a guy like him. He's close. He's close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills  With ravishment the listening hours,--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills  With ravishment the listening hours,--   Whisperings, wooings,    Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings     In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!      Dark the night       Yet is she bright,        For in her dark she brings the mystic star,         Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,          From some unknown afar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.  Only the blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45460]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.  Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises,   But blessedness dwells in the human breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather is crazy. I kind of like snow, though. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather is crazy. I kind of like snow, though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a more traditional baseball person. We're going to give the kids free rein to play the traditional style of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a more traditional baseball person. We're going to give the kids free rein to play the traditional style of baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly and readily apparent how cruel heretical teachings are and how prevalent the heresies are in contemporary times. Victims of these teachings have been encouraged to either to escape the world and their basic humanity into some form of flight and death or to use religion to undergird and isolate further their own self-centered self from the need to be loved and to love...   The conviction that heresy is cruel has given me a growing awe of and respect for orthodoxy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. [Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. [Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit praemii, nihil pretii: per se igitur expetitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. Those games certainly helped me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and maybe everyone is just happy to get off the ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20527]]></link><description><![CDATA[His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16787]]></link><description><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53609]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just saw a big sign with the F-word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just saw a big sign with the F-word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19032]]></link><description><![CDATA[For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61454</guid></item></channel></rss>