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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principlesnever do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principlesnever do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51625]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45043]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade,  My Castara lives unknown   To no looser ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade,  My Castara lives unknown   To no looser eye betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33453]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman and His NetsA fisherman, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman and His NetsA fisherman, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish. He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain all the large fish and to draw them to the shore; but he could not prevent the smaller fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52892]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these guys don't play anymore. But, our main thing, one of the constant things, is that we give band instruments to the high school and middle schools (of north central Wisconsin). That's the really big thing that we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38519</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/6988]]></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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16489]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all / Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil be to him who evil thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil be to him who evil thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are out there struggling to be heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast by this organism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of pity and love, return to this earth. Go not so far away, leaving us to evil. Darkness is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6600]]></link><description><![CDATA[God of pity and love, return to this earth. Go not so far away, leaving us to evil. Darkness is loose upon the world, the Devil Walks in the land, and there is nothing worth. Death like a dog runs howling from his lair; His bite has made men mad, they follow after All howling too, and their demoniac laughter Drowns like a sea our solitary prayer. Return, 0 Lord, return. Come with the day, Come with the light, that men may see once more Across this earth's uncomfortable floor The kindly paths, the old and loving way. Let us not die of evil in the night. Let there be God again. Let there be light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew his father very well. And yes, I think I would owe it not only to Barry. I owe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew his father very well. And yes, I think I would owe it not only to Barry. I owe it to his father to respect everything that this young man has accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26229]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   Is a year of tamer life!    City of glorious days,     Of hope, and labour and mirth,      With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays       For the ships of all the earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to tax involves the power to destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to tax involves the power to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel fortunate to get out of here with a victory. It feels like a loss though because we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel fortunate to get out of here with a victory. It feels like a loss though because we didn't deserve to win and Bridgeport did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;  But of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;  But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,   Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12625]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was fascinating for me to drive with Lies through the country roads. I also got to know Vienna again ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40644]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was fascinating for me to drive with Lies through the country roads. I also got to know Vienna again by driving through my home town by car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime commits it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime commits it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This [report] gives the Fed total latitude to do whatever they think is fitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42256]]></link><description><![CDATA[This [report] gives the Fed total latitude to do whatever they think is fitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8395]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had never felt it. To His humanity, His assumed flesh, it seemed terrible -- Gethsemane bears witness how terrible it seemed; but He passed into it for love of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9473]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. - Inaugural Address.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26537]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26537</guid></item></channel></rss>