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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54940]]></link><description><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   A little shade, the only one;    But shadows ever man pursue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my own personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself.   ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  November 13, 2001 Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   Repentance is in every view so desirable, so necessary, so suited to honor God, that I seek that above all. The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. I long to be in my proper place, my hand on my mouth, and my mouth in the dust... I feel this to be safe ground. Here I cannot err... I am sure that whatever God may despise... He will not despise the broken and contrite heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Them that has, gets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Them that has, gets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  In this Body of Christ, Paul sees "the ecclesia of God". Ecclesia is a Greek word with a splendid history. It was used in the old free commonwealths of Greece for the general assembly of all free citizens, by which their common life was governed. When political liberty went, the name still survived in the restricted municipal self-government which the Roman State allowed. It was taken over by the brotherhoods and guilds which in some measure superseded the old political associations. Among the Jews who spoke Greek, this word seemed the appropriate one to describe the commonwealth of Israel as ruled by God -- the historical Theocracy. Our translation of it is "Church". That word, however, has undergone such transformations of meaning that it is often doubtful in what sense it is being used. Perhaps for ecclesia we may use the word -- simpler, more general, and certainly nearest to its original meaning -- "commonwealth". [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6205]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose best name is Father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle  [Ger., Die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle  [Ger., Die Botschaft hor' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube;   Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it falls right on the weekend, when St. Patrick's Day comes on Friday or Saturday it's perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30206]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it falls right on the weekend, when St. Patrick's Day comes on Friday or Saturday it's perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.  O, that that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.  O, that that earth which kept the world in awe   Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work schedule of 12 to 16 hours a day leaves him an in exhaustive state, and just a few drinks -- or any drink -- are too much to handle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34811]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64195]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  To put it shortly, the Church forgets that Christianity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  To put it shortly, the Church forgets that Christianity is not an attitude of mind, but a type of life: a man's spirit is not known by his opinion, but by his action and general conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34060]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of health coverage).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46061]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a drag of cloud.muffled thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20700]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon our society than the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't ask for a more wonderful opera to end my tenure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't ask for a more wonderful opera to end my tenure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things recessions do is uncover weak links. When you're in a strong economy, a bull market, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40338]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things recessions do is uncover weak links. When you're in a strong economy, a bull market, you can paper over a lot of things. When you get under some strain, these things show up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor;  And so in ours, some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51463]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor;  And so in ours, some neighboring nation,   Taking advantage of our misery,    Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,     To beat us down, the which are down already;      And make a conquest of unhappy,       Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20569]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. [Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo  Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55094]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58097]]></link><description><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17592]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27791</guid></item></channel></rss>