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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock and verdue,   The abodes of happy millions, were no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53935]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worship the quicksand he walks in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worship the quicksand he walks in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   It was not a marriage only, but a marriage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   It was not a marriage only, but a marriage feast to which Christ conducted His disciples. Now, we cannot get over this plain fact by saying that it was a religious ceremony: that would be mere sophistry. It was an indulgence in the festivity of life; as plainly as words can describe, here was a banquet of human enjoyment. The very language of the master of the feast about men who had well drunk, tells us that there had been, not excess, of course, but happiness there, and merry-making. Neither can we explain away the lesson by saying that it is no example to us, for Christ was there to do good, and that what was safe for Him might be unsafe for us. For if His life is no pattern for us here in this case of accepting an invitation, in what can we be sure it is a pattern? Besides, He took His disciples there, and His mother was there: they were not shielded, as He was, by immaculate purity. He was there as a guest first, as Messiah only afterwards: thereby He declared the sacredness of natural enjoyments.... For Christianity does not destroy what is natural, but ennobles it. To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War should neither be feared nor provoked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50911]]></link><description><![CDATA[War should neither be feared nor provoked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgements where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgements where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34437]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's more of a question of timing. The timing of his development, combined with the development of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's more of a question of timing. The timing of his development, combined with the development of our team, didn't align.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52137]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, and when they get to the statehouse, they don't seem to talk to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high, The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52943]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high, The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never take my own side in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never take my own side in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61936]]></link><description><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of men away   Who gaze upon her unaware:    I would not play her larcenous tricks     To have her looks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carrier of news and knowledge, Instrument of trade and industry,  Promoter of mutual acquaintance,   Of peace and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carrier of news and knowledge, Instrument of trade and industry,  Promoter of mutual acquaintance,   Of peace and good-will    Among men and nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48463]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a man may prophesy,   With a near aim, of the main chance of things    As yet not come to life, which in their seeds     And weak beginnings lie intreasured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does not always ask words, but it always wants work. The motives and not the means are the things on which it passes judgment. And the man who shows by his life that he is not ashamed of the Gospel will assuredly one day find that the Gospel is not ashamed of him. There is much more which might be said, but I refrain. Ere I close, you will let me add my emphasis to the fact that it is in our life and conduct that we must show our devotion to Christ. The silent Gospel reaches further than the grandest rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40844]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this to be straightened out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3071]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3517]]></link><description><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is a perennial spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is a perennial spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63562]]></link><description><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box ... the ball kept deflecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30558]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box ... the ball kept deflecting off people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17904]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he came here and turned the program around, I'm talking about the whole city has galvanized behind him. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40586]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he came here and turned the program around, I'm talking about the whole city has galvanized behind him. The thing I like about it is he really brought the city together, the black and the white. You look up to the stands and you'd see all races up there. ... He brought the city together a lot. That's why a lot of people around here hate to see him go, because that electricity seems like it's died down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It happened so fast. We were up there at first and now we're at the bottom. It's rough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happened so fast. We were up there at first and now we're at the bottom. It's rough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47004]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51922]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;   So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.   - transcribed by James Henry Dixon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the Kingdom". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture which was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65062]]></link><description><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item></channel></rss>