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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10799]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19740]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By that sin fell the angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51360]]></link><description><![CDATA[By that sin fell the angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.  ... Roland Allen, Pentecost and the World  ... Also see comments on this book in Bookworms August 23, 2000 Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be redeemed by a power outside himself. I do not regard the over-determined "optimists" as silly; they seem to me only the victims of a wishful thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad news. But it's not a big issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always strive for that which is forbidden, and desire that which is denied us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always strive for that which is forbidden, and desire that which is denied us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,    Call me Lalage, or Doris,     Only, only, call me thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get out of bed before noon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get out of bed before noon]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is not the root cause of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is not the root cause of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25785]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm signing up kids right now. Some of these kids think they can play without coming to practice. I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm signing up kids right now. Some of these kids think they can play without coming to practice. I'm not going to take the liability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33656]]></link><description><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and distributors, and ultimately for consumers, ... The initiative announced today will help evolve the digital distribution of content over the Internet to create new e-commerce opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then read from the treasured volume  The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then read from the treasured volume  The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet  The beauty of thy voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want any money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want any money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a learning game for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a learning game for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20666]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies Charles Cuevas. He once said "Gimme hockey, or gimme death." He didn't quite get hockey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies Charles Cuevas. He once said "Gimme hockey, or gimme death." He didn't quite get hockey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  Since becoming a disciple of Christ, Paul knows that all mere orthodoxy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  Since becoming a disciple of Christ, Paul knows that all mere orthodoxy, all mere knowledge concerning God's will, is not only nothing but less than nothing. The more knowledge, the more obligation. The maintaining of revealed doctrine becomes blasphemy if it is not borne out by the corresponding testimony of the life. He who is always appealing to the Word of God without his life and conduct corresponding to this knowledge of God, dishonours God's name, making Him an object of mockery and hatred. It is just those who know so well how to talk about God who make His name hateful among men, because their lives darken the picture of God and turn it into a caricature. The Lord is judged by the life of His servants; this is the truer, the more zealously they appeal to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;  The world is good and the people are good,   And we're all good fellows together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60365</guid></item></channel></rss>