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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669]]></link><description><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still.   And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,    Give it an understanding but no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   That for an hermitage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40475]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18695]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the economy ails from important secular imbalances; there's a lot to be concerned about. But the cyclical forces indicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the economy ails from important secular imbalances; there's a lot to be concerned about. But the cyclical forces indicate that, at least over the coming quarters, visibility is high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that, however angry he gets, he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage the next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it. Each of them, if he seriously turns to God, can have that twist in the central man straightened out again: each is, in the long run, doomed if he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64152]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  There are many people who... speak to God in prayer, but hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  There are many people who... speak to God in prayer, but hardly ever listen to Him, or else listen to Him only vaguely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48244]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get a second chance at beating the No. 1 team in the country, and we're not going to turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get a second chance at beating the No. 1 team in the country, and we're not going to turn this one down. We're being given a second chance to dig deep and get this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62633]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I would have backed up a foot, I'd have been out of her way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I would have backed up a foot, I'd have been out of her way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I kiss you, it tastes like heaven... so sweet, loving, kind, and caring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23848]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I kiss you, it tastes like heaven... so sweet, loving, kind, and caring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played timid. We were lucky we were able to hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top shape after finishing well in the Tour and later having the time to prepare himself and spend time with his family without being troubled by injuries, illness or stressful contract negotiations. But just before a race starts you always get a little nervous anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has been down on our running game since (star Marcus Green graduated). We went out to prove a point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has been down on our running game since (star Marcus Green graduated). We went out to prove a point tonight, and I think we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57128]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I see the gay, the brave, the young,   Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung!    In joys of conquest he resigns his breath,     And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can see it before then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can see it before then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, but, wow, 5,000 calories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steroids are bad for sports, bad for players, bad for the young people who hold athletes up as role models. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steroids are bad for sports, bad for players, bad for the young people who hold athletes up as role models.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617</guid></item></channel></rss>