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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. I will give you, she said, all the riches of the Red Sea. I will teach you to fly then, said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?' If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53170]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of war and peace,--   Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!    Eternal summer gilds them yet,     But all, except their sun, is set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That being so, you might perhaps do one or two little things, as acts of love, and also as discipline. I suggest by preference the mortification of the tongue -- as being very tiresome and quite harmless to the health. Careful guard on all amusing criticisms of others, on all complaints however casual or trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Lastweek I put a mirror ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Lastweek I put a mirror over my dining room table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34803]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, at the pinch, at the decisive moment, we don't want it to work or ourselves to be lifted up above the failings and disloyalties we find so alluring, but rather to be enabled to continue them without the ugly consequences of so doing, to have the inexorable laws of life bent aside in our favour, so that we can squeeze through and escape, without reaping what we have sown; because, as we misunderstand it, the whole point of the good news our Lord brings is the (to us) gladsome announcement that God is happily much more morally indifferent than our consciences had thought, and is not going to make a fuss about our sins and such-like trivial peccadilloes, but will surely let us off -- because, in fact, we have not grasped that the core and essence of the Gospel... is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3517]]></link><description><![CDATA[And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,   And the eldest was born half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30304]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are affordable. They appeal to the ordinary boxing fan here in Los Angeles. You will not see tickets for $1000. Fans who love boxing can purchase tickets as low as $25. Over half the tickets are $50 and less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People point out that Romeo's never been a head coach, and this is definitely a big move that he's making, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38174]]></link><description><![CDATA[People point out that Romeo's never been a head coach, and this is definitely a big move that he's making,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stretch pant is a big and well-known segment for us. We chose the song because we wanted to create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stretch pant is a big and well-known segment for us. We chose the song because we wanted to create an upbeat, energetic and fun mood for the spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when lovers' vows   Seem sweet in every whispered word;    And gentle winds, and waters near,     Make music to the lonely ear.      Each flower the dews have lightly wet,       And in the sky the stars are met,        And on the wave is deeper blue,         And on the leaf a browner hue,          And in the heaven that clear obscure,           So softly dark, and darkly pure.            Which follows the decline of day,             As twilight melts beneath the moon away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life Into the eye and prospect of his soul. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A release order is to be given to the prison administration for the defendants whose names have been mentioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A release order is to be given to the prison administration for the defendants whose names have been mentioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31199]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds are fruits, words are leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds are fruits, words are leaves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5784]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 Rejoice in God, O ye tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 Rejoice in God, O ye tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every creature, in which is the breath of Life. Let man and beast appear before him, and magnify his name together. Let Noah and his company approach the throne of Grace, and do homage to the Ark of their Salvation. Let Abraham present a Ram, and worship the God of his Redemption. Let Jacob with his speckled Drove adore the good Shepherd of Israel. ... Let Daniel come forth with a Lion, and praise God with all his might, through faith in Christ Jesus. ... Let David bless with the bear --  The beginning of victory to the Lord --  to the Lord the perfection of excellence --  Hallelujah from the heart of God, and from the hand of the artist inimitable, and from the echo of the heavenly harp in sweetness magnifical and mighty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I asked for was a written and verbal apology from Ms. Gossman, and I didn't get it, ... I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I asked for was a written and verbal apology from Ms. Gossman, and I didn't get it, ... I have contacted a lawyer, and the housing board is responsible for what she did. You are all three responsible, and you are going to be served. She needs to be taken off the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51207]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not judge the people we love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23484]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not judge the people we love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not failure, but low aim is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not failure, but low aim is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above me to see what they could do. I think I passed some of them, most of them, and I'm happy about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56020]]></link><description><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56020</guid></item></channel></rss>