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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Passion and strife bow down the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion and strife bow down the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures,   He lays for us the pillows straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare.  Blood stuffed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13193]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare.  Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food,   And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62332]]></link><description><![CDATA[This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38171]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51918]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8865]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's like John Havlicek right now. She just found out she could score. We're giving (her) the green light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36085]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's like John Havlicek right now. She just found out she could score. We're giving (her) the green light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight; Make me a child again just for tonight.  Mother, come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight; Make me a child again just for tonight.  Mother, come back from the echoeless shore,   Take me again to your heart as of yore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38524]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at the Grand in August), and national artists like that, I love seeing that kind of stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42535</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[In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16287]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have a lot of admiration for her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17663]]></link><description><![CDATA[One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.  ... Lesslie Newbigin, The Household of God February 2, 2000 THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12641]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,   Into main ocean they, this deed accurst,    An emblem yields to friends and enemies     How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified      By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better your room than your company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better your room than your company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something of a surprise just because the backlash was so strong last year to reinstate full funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32180]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something of a surprise just because the backlash was so strong last year to reinstate full funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing to move toward correctness. They freeze up if they think you'll pounce on every error. You want your daughters to keep writing, since this is the best way for them to develop strong usage skills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent.  Oh, tell me where Love goeth!   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent.  Oh, tell me where Love goeth!   That was not Love that went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul. And everywhere the tendency is to eliminate personality. Even where religion does not have this mystical character, it has no relation to an historical person, who communicates himself to me. That is the characteristic essence of the Christian faith alone. Even where a prophet plays the role of a mediator of divine truth, as for example in Islam, the religious act is not directed toward him but toward his teaching or message. But the Christian does not believe in the teachings of Jesus -- which would not be Christian faith, but general religion -- he believes in Christ Himself as being the Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform needs examples more than advocates ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform needs examples more than advocates]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.(typo corrected).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26038</guid></item></channel></rss>