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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nicer to have them chant your name than to do the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nicer to have them chant your name than to do the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60525]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside pressure and puts on a show for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to be holy, a means to the integration of character for those who cannot bear their conflicts. It is a statement of the divine intention for humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know or listen to those who know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know or listen to those who know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  A metaphor taken--I have not the page aright--   From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32384]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was quite audacious and highly inappropriate. What was he afraid of being asked? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was quite audacious and highly inappropriate. What was he afraid of being asked?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm more interested in whether the losses we'll see on Friday are a permanent feature on the landscape or just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm more interested in whether the losses we'll see on Friday are a permanent feature on the landscape or just the result of people pushed out of work due to Katrina and Rita. I think the market will look at it and shrug it off and look at what's going to happen in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's really focused. He knows what has to be done. He's focused on the task at hand. He wants to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38180]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's really focused. He knows what has to be done. He's focused on the task at hand. He wants to have a very big year, and I think that he is. He's a senior now. He's matured and he knows what has to be done. He has definitely stepped up and become the leader that we need on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13284]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When age is jocond it makes sport for death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50066]]></link><description><![CDATA[When age is jocond it makes sport for death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57411]]></link><description><![CDATA[All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13939]]></link><description><![CDATA[True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it is any surprise to anybody because everyone who has talked to me since I resigned said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it is any surprise to anybody because everyone who has talked to me since I resigned said they understand that there is a pervasive negative attitude in the county, ... There is a lot of criticism. The focus seems to be on criticizing county government as opposed to, at least sometimes, looking at the good things that are going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help launch a new millennium,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure we will also serve dinner as well, so we will close soon after that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure we will also serve dinner as well, so we will close soon after that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, to number not his years but his days. [And so, those] that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special corner of the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57822]]></link><description><![CDATA[This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28037]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47290]]></link><description><![CDATA[God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63543</guid></item></channel></rss>