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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56752]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,  That starts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58786]]></link><description><![CDATA[What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,  That starts at once--bright pure--from Pity's mine,   Already polish'd by the hand divine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split it into different parts if you'd like - right now I'll put it as Unsorted. And He feels so incredibly weak when he has ferociously quarreled against them since his genuine years and has lost. His hopes for a better understanding dissipate as he grows older, and his mind grows less eager to reach a verdict. Having no sense of direction, he roams here, looking above, asking futile questions, even though the answers may be feared. Good by nature, he has learned his survival skills, which will lead him into the real world, and will someday make him a successful individual. Wishing the pressure did not exist, it is a natural instinct to adapt and not to recluse. He rather is a mindless drone than a lonely Hermit, after all. He has no control over his environment, it is the exact opposite. Molded and shaped by his surroundings, he seeks about for himself and his purpose, while this mold slowly deteriorates organic matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gossips with you will gossip of you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping this game will move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping this game will move the thought of owning their own business to the same cognitive level as other more popular career choices. Our children are our future, and since more than 50 percent of new jobs come from small business, it is imperative that we encourage today's children to be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45840]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45869]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I don't know if what he did was a crime, I feel it was problematic in a moral sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I don't know if what he did was a crime, I feel it was problematic in a moral sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out of the ones we already have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5019]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19323]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10727]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;   Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,    But an eternal now shall ever last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really decided to run because I believe that if elected I can make a change for the better in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really decided to run because I believe that if elected I can make a change for the better in Union City. Being a life-long resident, I've seen the city go through many changes, and the ones recently have not been the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19875]]></link><description><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. Rrelating boxing advice he received from Archie Moore on posturing before a fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift in life is to be remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings Hath in the table of his law commanded  That thou shalt do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings Hath in the table of his law commanded  That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then   Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a man's?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games as possible before we finish the season,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10423]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence, you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence, you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aaron isn't afraid of confrontations. He has come so far in the last couple years. Before, he seemed to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aaron isn't afraid of confrontations. He has come so far in the last couple years. Before, he seemed to be pitching away from contact, trying to miss bats. That guy has vanished. Now, he pitches with the confidence that the batter can't get to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success brings many to ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success brings many to ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50180</guid></item></channel></rss>