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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were treated like animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were treated like animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through thick and thin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through thick and thin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42950]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her lover,   And wring his bosom, is--to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21275]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that wecannot federalize virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled by the internet - as well as by cell phones, digital assistants, and the like - but that it's really about customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no evidence that additional expenses do anything but lower your returns. Lower expense ratios are more important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no evidence that additional expenses do anything but lower your returns. Lower expense ratios are more important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37205]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is such a great sounding board, because she's the one who says, `How can you bear it?' ... And Evelyn Ryan, being who she was, could find satisfaction in any situation that she was living in. She found the magic, and the profundity, in the act of raising children. And, oh man, I couldn't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands for the ultimate mystery of Jesus Christ. His love we can experience; His salvation we can appropriate; His help we can claim; but their remains in Him the divine mystery of the Incarnation, which is beyond our understanding, and before which we can only worship and adore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60616]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's wilderness is another man's theme park ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61577]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's wilderness is another man's theme park]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28063]]></link><description><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22317]]></link><description><![CDATA[If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would they want Jeff Bagwell now making $17 million, or opt for access to $15 million? I can understand that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would they want Jeff Bagwell now making $17 million, or opt for access to $15 million? I can understand that. But he's under contract. Sometimes you have to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. Interesting textures. Going back to classics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Division has always been a disease of the church... The Love Feast, which should have been the sign and symbol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Division has always been a disease of the church... The Love Feast, which should have been the sign and symbol of perfect unity, has become a thing of divisions and class distinctions. And here there is something which only the newer translations reveal. In the older translations, it is said that to eat and drink at the sacrament without discerning the Lord's body is the way to judgment and not to salvation. But in the best Greek text, the word Lord's is not included. The sin is not to discern the body; that is to say, not to discern that the church is a body, not to be aware of the oneness of the church, not to be aware of the togetherness in which all its members should be joined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28726]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and it's going to hurt these kids for a while, but a month from now, we'll be celebrating what we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34750]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural inspiration or revelation; not considering that all true religion originates from reason, and can not othe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15262</guid></item></channel></rss>