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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  The demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  The demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited in vital relation to a new life in which sin is overcome... is entirely legitimate, and it touches a weak point in the traditional Protestant doctrine. Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers tells us that he was brought up -- such was the effect of the current orthodoxy upon him -- in a certain distrust of good works. Some were certainly wanted, but not as being themselves salvation, only, as he puts it, as tokens of justification. It was a distinct stage in his religious progress when he realised that true justification sanctifies, and that the soul can and ought to abandon itself spontaneously and joyfully to do the good that it delights in... An atonement that does not regenerate... is not an atonement in which men can be asked to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and over again you don't always want to do that in back-to-back duals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably, they anticipate that down the line there will be a point that confrontation will be inevitable. Therefore, they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably, they anticipate that down the line there will be a point that confrontation will be inevitable. Therefore, they are just indicating that in case they come under any military pressure or any threat then they can properly defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to because people just didn't have time to sit with them for hours on end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made it close. In the fourth they started trapping aggressively and we started turning the ball over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34667]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made it close. In the fourth they started trapping aggressively and we started turning the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wow! You better keep your resume ready. Make sure it's updated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wow! You better keep your resume ready. Make sure it's updated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19891]]></link><description><![CDATA[His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28390]]></link><description><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on EleanorRoosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21595]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on EleanorRoosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63694]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child!   Not a rainbow shines to cheer us;    Ah! the sun comes never near us,     And the heavens look dark and wile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter   Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast preserved me by Thy fatherly care through all the years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter   Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast preserved me by Thy fatherly care through all the years of my past life, and now permittest me again to commemorate the sufferings and merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, grant me so to partake of this holy rite, that the disquiet of my mind may be appeased, that my faith may be increased, my hope strengthened, and my life regulated by Thy Will. Make me truly thankful for that portion of health which Thy mercy has restored, and enable me to use the remains of life to Thy glory and my own salvation. Take not from me, O Lord, Thy Holy Spirit. Extinguish in my mind all sinful and inordinate desires. Let me resolve to do that which is right, and let me by Thy help keep my resolutions. Let me, if it is best for me, at last know peace and comfort, but whatever state of life Thou shalt appoint me, let me end it by a happy death, and enjoy eternal happiness in Thy presence, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4058]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10217]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's all said and done, this year may be even more gratifying than last year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's all said and done, this year may be even more gratifying than last year,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2261]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all about chemistry. Our chemistry is starting to build. We are beginning to find out what is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39944]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all about chemistry. Our chemistry is starting to build. We are beginning to find out what is going to suit this team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25259]]></link><description><![CDATA[The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25259</guid></item></channel></rss>