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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to tax involves the power to destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to tax involves the power to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12387]]></link><description><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really know him (Matthews). But from what I understand, he did a lot for Pensacola. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really know him (Matthews). But from what I understand, he did a lot for Pensacola.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is the only drink for a wise man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is the only drink for a wise man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61738]]></link><description><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64865]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember getting busted in the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember getting busted in the nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue alone is happiness below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue alone is happiness below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46462]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52723]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14035]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52041]]></link><description><![CDATA[...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44206]]></link><description><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,   The title is affeered!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;  When our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18151]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;  When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep?   No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14461]]></link><description><![CDATA[To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42683]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like that all the time on the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9355]]></link><description><![CDATA[In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58051]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[was invited and agreed to administer the oath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39608]]></link><description><![CDATA[was invited and agreed to administer the oath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine by defect, and delicately weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine by defect, and delicately weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, / Without a city wall, / Where the dear Lord was crucified,/ Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31241]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, / Without a city wall, / Where the dear Lord was crucified,/ Who died to save us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hadn't wasted any time at all to try to return these people's lives to somewhat of a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37034]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hadn't wasted any time at all to try to return these people's lives to somewhat of a sense of normalcy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28875]]></link><description><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28875</guid></item></channel></rss>