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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as there is life, there is danger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11050]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as there is life, there is danger]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les fruits.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace,  Secret joys and secret smiles,   Little pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace,  Secret joys and secret smiles,   Little pretty infant wiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to cover our bases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31598]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to cover our bases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63755]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple sells hardware and software. They don't have an existing subscriber base like cable companies, and they don't have content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apple sells hardware and software. They don't have an existing subscriber base like cable companies, and they don't have content like ESPN that people have an affinity to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61086]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a basis of tribal identity or group politics in our culture; the concept of tolerance is never invoked in this context because there is too obviously nothing to tolerate. In a rational culture, the same would be true of race, ethnicity, and the like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and thirst" after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing thing, but we're in it together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what I've been trying to stress the whole time. It's a safety issue. It's only a matter of time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37455]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what I've been trying to stress the whole time. It's a safety issue. It's only a matter of time before someone gets killed or is seriously injured on that road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to me to have come for a frank and direct translation of the Greek New Testament into our modern spoken American English. We take great pains to provide Asiatica and Africana with special versions, so that they may read the Bible each in his own tongue wherein he was born; and why not do as much for our young people, and our fellow citizens generally?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is rhythm and meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is rhythm and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts. Our hearts are closed, for they have already been given to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29820]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20681</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[Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47510]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind  To suffer with the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21030]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind  To suffer with the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one wants to start with the proposition that it's obviously in their (Conservatives') advantage to have the election in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one wants to start with the proposition that it's obviously in their (Conservatives') advantage to have the election in January-February, no, the data doesn't support that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59127]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59127</guid></item></channel></rss>