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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11831]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of things that could have gone into it, so to speculate would be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42471]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of things that could have gone into it, so to speculate would be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plant often removed cannot thrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plant often removed cannot thrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9873]]></link><description><![CDATA[With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I probably should have said no, ... She just didn't seem like she could take a baby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I probably should have said no, ... She just didn't seem like she could take a baby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15257]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53168]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of demand for this type of online content since there are a lot of people that want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42558]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of demand for this type of online content since there are a lot of people that want to see a scene or a movie, but don't want to pay the monthly fee for a site, so now they can get it on DVD.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30984]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a fine field for talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a fine field for talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16417]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not too stiff. I'll be at practice on Friday and I'll be ready to play on Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32704]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not too stiff. I'll be at practice on Friday and I'll be ready to play on Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44613]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.  "With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in,   'Twill be warm and convanient," said Bryan O'Lynn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60656]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49570]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!  Born the free heir of nature's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!  Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,   To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;    Resigns his native rights for meaner things,     For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;   Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden    Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,     These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.      There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,       Gorging their hapless victims one by one;        Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,         Till evening roused them to the chase again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41287]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  It takes a determined effort of the mind to break free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  It takes a determined effort of the mind to break free from the error of making books an end in themselves. The worst thing a book can do for a Christian is to leave him with the impression that he has received from it anything really good; the best it can do is to point the way to the Good he is seeking. The function of a good book is to stand like a signpost directing the reader toward the Truth and the Life. That book serves best which early makes itself unnecessary, just as a signpost serves best after it is forgotten, after the traveler has arrived safely at his desired haven. The work of a good book is to incite the reader to moral action, to turn his eves toward God and urge him forward. Beyond that it cannot go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, so I just kept shooting. I wasn't shy at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11389]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22946</guid></item></channel></rss>