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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14622]]></link><description><![CDATA["Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak   That once familiar word.   - Thomas Haynes Bayly,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;  But where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;  But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain   Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove  With flaunting honeysuckle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove  With flaunting honeysuckle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light.  Purple violets for the mouth,   Breathing perfumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light.  Purple violets for the mouth,   Breathing perfumes west and south;    And a sword of flashing lilies,     Holden ready for the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12997]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad company by doing so."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25519]]></link><description><![CDATA[(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41067]]></link><description><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel the upward movement in body weight,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who earlyin life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22383]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who earlyin life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habituallydirects his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observationstrengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly andresolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an incredible live band. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38219]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an incredible live band.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple is the language of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple is the language of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48432]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The hype) speaks for itself. It's a big game, and we're going to be prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36370]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The hype) speaks for itself. It's a big game, and we're going to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11566]]></link><description><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the year   Can even Winter's crystal gems be spared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1748]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try to be brave despite all the bafflement. A god who created, and withdrew, could be mighty, but he could not be love. Who could love a God remote, when suffering is our lot? Our God is closer than our problems, for they are out there, to be faced; He is here, beside us, Emmanuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27564]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57900]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord which is our constant lot. That is why we can study everything else in nature much more surely than we can study ourselves. With ourselves, all we have to go on is an occasional glimpse of some small part of the truth, and we must be content with that, knowing that we are truly known by Him who alone knows us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346]]></link><description><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14549]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing we tell our client countries is to have clear institutional arrangements in place for having rapid response and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41510]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing we tell our client countries is to have clear institutional arrangements in place for having rapid response and effective coordination,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate mystery is one's own self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate mystery is one's own self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell  Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell  Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy   With sounds most musical, most melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787</guid></item></channel></rss>