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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It's surrounded on three sides by water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's surrounded on three sides by water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47326]]></link><description><![CDATA[When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which we always tend to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [Fr., La plus perdue de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [Fr., La plus perdue de toutes les journees est celle ou l'on n'a pas rit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  We have spoken throughout of the Divine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  We have spoken throughout of the Divine Commonwealth. That phrase represents Paul's "ecclesia of God". It is a community of loving persons, who bear one another's burdens, who seek to build up one another in love, who "have the same thoughts in relation to one another that they have in their communion with Christ". It is all this because it is the living embodiment of Christ's own Spirit. This is a high and mystical doctrine, but a doctrine which has no meaning apart from loving fellowship in real life. A company of people who celebrate a solemn sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, and all the time are moved by selfish passions -- rivalry, competition, mutual contempt -- is not for Paul a Church or Divine Commonwealth at all, no matter how lofty their faith or how deep their mystical experience; for all these things may "puff up"; love alone "builds up". In the very act, therefore, of attaining its liberty to exist, the Divine Commonwealth has transcended the great divisions of men. In principle, it has transcended them all, and by seriously living out that which its association means, it is on the way to comprehending the whole race. Short of that its development can never stop. This is the revealing of the sons of God for which the whole creation is waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are very few things that I read that kick me in the gut. This is beyond my wildest guess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39731]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very few things that I read that kick me in the gut. This is beyond my wildest guess of how bad it actually is ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â how bad, how long and how nobody knew about it, ... I don't think Democrats or Republicans win on this. It basically makes people detest Congress even more and deters voter turnout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence gives consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52262]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod,  And sting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod,  And sting the luckless foot that presses them?   There are who in the path of social life    Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,     And sting the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,  Immovable for three days past,   Points to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,  Immovable for three days past,   Points to the misty main.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must I give way and room to your rash choler? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must I give way and room to your rash choler?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon -- anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain. The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognized an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as an army with banners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  Man is challenged to participate in the sufferings of God at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  Man is challenged to participate in the sufferings of God at the hands of a godless world. He must therefore plunge himself into the life of a godless world, without attempting to gloss over its ungodliness with a veneer of religion or trying to transfigure it. He must live a 'worldly' life and so participate in the suffering of God. He may live a worldly life as one emancipated from all false religions and obligations. To be a Christian does not mean to be religious in a particular way, to cultivate some particular form of asceticism (as a sinner, a penitent, or a saint), but to be a man. It is not some religious act which makes a Christian what he is, but participation in the suffering of God in the life of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long;  Who fastest walks, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long;  Who fastest walks, but walks astray,   Is only furthest from his way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair,  His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head,   His eyes on his dusty table, with different documents spread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's essentially the entire refining capacity of Canada. That's called a severe supply shock, and that really affects the wholesale ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32982]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's essentially the entire refining capacity of Canada. That's called a severe supply shock, and that really affects the wholesale market, or the price at the refineries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch a scientist and you touch a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch a scientist and you touch a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22819]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sunrise wakes the lark to sing, The moonrise wakes the nightingale.  Come, darkness, moonrise, everything   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sunrise wakes the lark to sing, The moonrise wakes the nightingale.  Come, darkness, moonrise, everything   That is so silent, sweet, and pale:    Come, so ye wake the nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26375]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all;  The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll,   And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64104]]></link><description><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12684]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, "Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7008]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to feed or live upon; which can only then be done when every degree of perfection we aim at is a degree of death to the passions of the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7008</guid></item></channel></rss>