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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18824]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheating is often more efficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheating is often more efficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66227]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39656]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be the time to be urgent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   Is a year of tamer life!    City of glorious days,     Of hope, and labour and mirth,      With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays       For the ships of all the earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf  Of the ravined salt-sea shark,   Root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf  Of the ravined salt-sea shark,   Root of hemlock digged i' th' dark,    Liver of blaspheming Jew,     Gall of goat, and slips of yew      Slivered in the moon's eclipse,       Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,        Finger of birth-strangled babe         Ditch-delivered by a drab          Make the gruel thick and slab.           Add there to a tiger's chaudron            For th' ingredience of our cauldron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,  Et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16116]]></link><description><![CDATA[La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,  Et dont l'autre est tenu par un grand imbecile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill,  Icy and chill,   Little care we:    Little we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill,  Icy and chill,   Little care we:    Little we fear     Weather without,      Sheltered about       The Mahogany-Tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The overwhelming recognition of human sin controls the Old Testament and the New Testament alike, and no understanding of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The overwhelming recognition of human sin controls the Old Testament and the New Testament alike, and no understanding of our Lord's words and actions is possible if we persist in denying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!  What freezings have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/159]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!  What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!   What old December's bareness everywhere!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46644]]></link><description><![CDATA[For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,  Seems nowhere to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,  Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air   Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,    And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.     The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet      Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit       Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed        In a tumultuous privacy of storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a couple of posts with good size that kind of helped diminish some of her effectiveness against us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a couple of posts with good size that kind of helped diminish some of her effectiveness against us, but she definitely has some talent. (Brown's) biggest thing is her aggressiveness and athleticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating the bitter bread of banishment. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating the bitter bread of banishment. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of fagots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to the load, before we are required to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your visionis the promise of what you shall one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your visionis the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy ofwhat you shall at last unveil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't see it go in because of the mound in front of the green, ... I knew it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't see it go in because of the mound in front of the green, ... I knew it was going to be close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people in Barrow thought we would starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people in Barrow thought we would starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53330]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25566]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  God's unchangeableness is the very foundation of desire and hope and activity in things religious as in things natural. The uniformity of nature's operations in the one, and the constancy of God's promises in the other, give aim and certainty to events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just trying to keep the inning going so we could have a chance. We did a poor job ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just trying to keep the inning going so we could have a chance. We did a poor job early in the game but were able to come on late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None knowes the weight of anothers burthen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49662]]></link><description><![CDATA[None knowes the weight of anothers burthen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music and sweet poetry agree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43430]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music and sweet poetry agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43430</guid></item></channel></rss>