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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,   Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind,    There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,     And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children are enrolled in school and they are now trying to get back to some type of normalcy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children are enrolled in school and they are now trying to get back to some type of normalcy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2316]]></link><description><![CDATA[On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John is a great docent, because he's very relaxed, very knowledgeable and he doesn't have any big agenda. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41987]]></link><description><![CDATA[John is a great docent, because he's very relaxed, very knowledgeable and he doesn't have any big agenda. He just wants people to enjoy themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62549]]></link><description><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The one great fear which is a holy fear is, I think, lest you make your adventure too small, too easy, too self-full, too mediocre. Christianity fails because people will keep on the surface too much, they will not go down to face these deep inner obediences; and that is ultimately to be beaten by themselves. We talk big and play so small. And the world has found it out --the great bulk have discarded Christianity as the way of Hope and put their hope in other things.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  September 26, 1998  Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Even those of us who are inside it will agree that, in the main, the Church and all for which it stands occupy a palpably smaller place in the life of the average member than it did in former days. We explain it on the ground that life has become fuller, and that, of necessity, our attention nowadays has to percolate over a wide area instead of rushing foam-flecked down a narrower channel -- which is to say, in other words, that Christ is getting lost to us in the crush and throng of things, does not loom up as arresting, as unique, as all-important, as He did to our forefathers. Yet that, when you come to think of it, is no bad definition of unspirituality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708]]></link><description><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.   ... John Henry Newman  September 10, 2000   Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.   ... Luis Palau  September 11, 2000   Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.   ... Robert Louis Stevenson  September 12, 2000   Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An' all us other children, when the supper things is done, We set around the kitchen fire an' has the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57924]]></link><description><![CDATA[An' all us other children, when the supper things is done, We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun  A-list'nin' to the witch tales 'at Annie tells about   An' the gobble-uns 'at gits you    Ef you     Don't      Watch       Out!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with the Capitol Theater is it was built for movies, there's no backstage area. Now, all of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with the Capitol Theater is it was built for movies, there's no backstage area. Now, all of our backstage, all of our dressing rooms, everything like that will be in the other building. The restrooms will be in the other building, plus the concessions will be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While it may sound good initially, this has the potential to hurt businesses at a time when we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29571]]></link><description><![CDATA[While it may sound good initially, this has the potential to hurt businesses at a time when we should be helping them. If this purchasing pool restricts access to certain retailers or undercuts prices, then the state is meddling in the free-market system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for apillow-I have still joy in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22742]]></link><description><![CDATA[With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for apillow-I have still joy in the midst of all these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things whichmatter least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things whichmatter least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is a poor man's wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is a poor man's wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob is a tremendous kid. He amazes me every day. With 13 seniors he didn't need to be a leader ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bob is a tremendous kid. He amazes me every day. With 13 seniors he didn't need to be a leader last year, but he's really taken on the role this year. This is his team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks will probably hit a wall in the next couple of months, unless we move closer to the Goldilocks scenario. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks will probably hit a wall in the next couple of months, unless we move closer to the Goldilocks scenario.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,   Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A partial world will list to my lays, While Anna reigns, and sets a female name  Unrival'd in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54532]]></link><description><![CDATA[A partial world will list to my lays, While Anna reigns, and sets a female name  Unrival'd in the glorious lists of fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood aloof from the world He had made, and let law take its course. He did not here and now deal with sinful men. Paul lets us see how new and wonderful was the experience when God "flashed on his heart" in personal dealing with him. He had not suspected that God was like that. His theological studies had told him that God was loving and merciful; but he had thought this love and mercy were expressed once and for all in the arrangements He had made for Israel's blessedness... It was a new thing to be assured by an inward experience admitting of no further question that God loved him, and that the eternal mercy was a Father's free forgiveness of His erring child. This was the experience that Christ had brought him: he had seen the splendour of God's own love in the face of "the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not tolerate the interference of religion in our justice system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not tolerate the interference of religion in our justice system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3099]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   It may seem an anachronism to speak of "the relation of the ordained ministry towards the Church" ... when we are only thinking about St. Paul and his converts. Was there really an ordained ministry as early as that? We need not argue about whether, or how, St. Paul was ordained, but he certainly considered that he and his fellow workers had a special pastoral relation to their converts.... St. Paul was primarily a missionary, which in itself establishes a link with the Servant of the Lord. As a missionary, he was not working on his own, but was supported by a group of assistants without whose help he could never have carried on his work. We know the names of many of them... But there were many more whose names we do not know, sometimes referred to as "the brethren" (e.g., in I Cor. 16:11). This missionary group with St. Paul as its leader is the New Testament equivalent of the ordained ministry of today, and it is significant for us that St. Paul describes this group as carrying out in some sense the work of servants in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president has the power to pick up a pen and require car companies to raise fuel-efficiency standards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president has the power to pick up a pen and require car companies to raise fuel-efficiency standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57942]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66234]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66234</guid></item></channel></rss>