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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171]]></link><description><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little,   Tight little,    Slight little,     Light little,      Trim little, slim little craft!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned men and great scholars have devoted great effort and prolonged study to the Holy Scriptures... employing the gifts which God gives to every person who has the use of reason. This knowledge is good ... but it does not bring with it any spiritual experience of God, for these graces are granted only to those who have a great love for Him. This fountain of love issues from our Lord alone, and no stranger may approach it. But knowledge of this kind is common to good and bad alike, since it can be acquired without love, ... and men of a worldly life are sometimes more knowledgeable than many true Christians although they do not possess this love. St. Paul describes this kind of knowledge: "If I had full knowledge of all things and knew all secrets, but had no love, I should be nothing." ... Some people who possess this knowledge become proud and misuse it in order to increase their personal reputation, worldly rank, honours and riches, when they should use it humbly to the praise of God and for the benefit of their fellow Christians in true charity... St. Paul says of this kind of knowledge: "Knowledge by itself stirs the heart with pride, but united to love it turns to edification." By itself this knowledge is like water, tasteless and cold. But if those who have it will offer it humbly to our Lord and ask for His grace, He will turn the water into wine with His blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul's argument in First Corinthians 1:18-25 is equally relevant when we come to ask why men cannot understand the Bible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paul's argument in First Corinthians 1:18-25 is equally relevant when we come to ask why men cannot understand the Bible. Any attempts to hide behind the excuse that it is too difficult, when what we mean is that its word is too hard for us to bear, meets the just remark of a pastor from Communist Germany: "How can they say that the Bible is difficult, when young Communists are poring over much more difficult and much more technical literature to discover what Communism is all about?" Sometimes the Biblical teaching is crystal-clear, but we dare not understand it. The Christian Church has a vested interest in its present forms, and Christian people, like others, have their pleasant prejudices. This unwillingness to hear some new thing, except in times of great disturbance, plays a bigger part in weakening the voice of God through the Bible than we are prepared to admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Many people have a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Many people have a very strangely childish notion, that "praying in the name of Christ" means simply the addition of the words "through Jesus Christ our Lord" at the end of their prayers. But depend upon it, they do not by adding these words, or any words, bring it about that their prayers should be in the name of Christ. To pray in the name of Christ means to pray in such a way as represents Christ. The representative always must speak in the spirit and meaning of those for whom he speaks. If Christ is our representative, that must be because He speaks our wishes, or what we ought to make our wishes; and if we are to pray in the name of Christ, that means that we are, however far off, expressing His wishes and intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sad because it came back to haunt me this year, ... I came back from a wrist injury and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33831]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sad because it came back to haunt me this year, ... I came back from a wrist injury and a shoulder injury, so it's hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   In the long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   In the long run, the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell is... a question: "What are you asking God to do?" To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that that is what He does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  When Paul speaks [II Cor. 3] of our being ministers of the New Testament, he does not refer to books most of which were not yet written, but to the gospel, which he found in the Scripture he possessed. The Jews could only see "Old Testament" in Moses and the prophets, because they were blind. To the spiritual all Scripture is gospel, or New Testament (the Law being the schoolmaster, bringing us to Christ), but to the natural and self righteous, as we ought to know from experience and observation, all Scripture (gospels and epistles included) is Old Testament, or Covenant of Works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15567]]></link><description><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may not eschu,   And namely that that to us alle is due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugs are part of everybody life for me. I’ll hug all sorts of people- I don’t worry about it looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hugs are part of everybody life for me. I’ll hug all sorts of people- I don’t worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10098]]></link><description><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In economics, the majority is always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26209]]></link><description><![CDATA[In economics, the majority is always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52046]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36628]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not have enough security agents here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55519]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8656]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13268]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop going to school when we graduate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66130]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop going to school when we graduate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21895</guid></item></channel></rss>