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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the passion of slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the passion of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. -David Searls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. -David Searls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death ends a life, not a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death ends a life, not a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's decree to withdraw from the Council of CIS Defense Ministers does not mean that Georgia is withdrawing from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's decree to withdraw from the Council of CIS Defense Ministers does not mean that Georgia is withdrawing from the Commonwealth of Independent States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52500]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55538]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people inside the game know about Romeo and what he can do. To the Browns' credit, they saw it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people inside the game know about Romeo and what he can do. To the Browns' credit, they saw it, too, and hired him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30127]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one with an intense social consciousness, if it does not fill one with a sense of overwhelming responsibility for the world. It has been said... truly that the Church exists for those outside of itself. The Church must never be in any sense a little huddle of pious people, shutting their doors against the world, lost in prayer and praise, connoisseurs of preaching and liturgy, busy mutually congratulating themselves on the excellence of their Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28105]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call first truths those we discover after all the others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call first truths those we discover after all the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65330</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[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52353]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly true when the opportunities for self-advancement are relatively meager, and one's individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for. Such persons sooner or later turn their backs on an individual existence and strive to acquire a sense of worth and a purpose by an identification with a holy cause, a leader, or a movement. The faith and pride they derive from such an identification serve them as substitutes for the unattainable self-confidence and self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44882]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, like shy bubbles, onward; from a boy   I wanton'd with thy breakers.    . . . .     And laid my hand upon thy mane--as I do here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  Naturally, the first emotion of man towards the being he calls God, but of whom he knows so little, is fear. Where it is possible that fear should exist it is well that it should exist, cause continual uneasiness, and be cast out by nothing less than love.... Until love, which is the truth towards God, is able to cast out fear, it is well that fear should hold; it is a bond, however poor, between that which is and that which creates -- a bond that must be broken, but a bond that can be broken only by the tightening of an infinitely closer bond. Verily God must be terrible to those that are far from Him: for they fear He will do -- yea, is doing -- with them what they do not, cannot desire, and can ill endure... While they are such as they are, there is much in Him that cannot but affright them: they ought, they do well, to fear Him... To remove that fear from their hearts, save by letting them know His love with its purifying fire, a love which for ages, it may be, they cannot know, would be to give them up utterly to the power of evil. Persuade men that fear is a vile thing, that it is an insult to God, that He will have none of it -- while they are yet in love with their own will, and slaves to every movement of passionate impulse -- and what will the consequence be? That they will insult God as a discarded idol, a superstition, a falsehood, as a thing under whose evil influence they have too long groaned, a thing to be cast out and spit upon. After that, how much will they learn of Him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48549]]></link><description><![CDATA[A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2085]]></link><description><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53281]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62362]]></link><description><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which disfigures it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19215]]></link><description><![CDATA[My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19215</guid></item></channel></rss>