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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not death, for it is your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not death, for it is your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forever is composed of nows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forever is composed of nows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6374</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[It was about as different from home as I could imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was about as different from home as I could imagine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, they passed it on to the highway department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, unaware,    That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,     Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf      While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough       In England--now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54386]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46493]]></link><description><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17653]]></link><description><![CDATA[After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49320]]></link><description><![CDATA[He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, they've become an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, they've become an obstacle to being able to live a healthy life. This survey shows not only that high drug costs are a problem, but that people expect their legislators to do something about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64792]]></link><description><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite physical agony and rejection by the world. No amount of air-conditioning and pew-cusioning in the suburban church can cover over the hard truth that the Christian life... is a narrow way of suffering; that discipleship is costly: that, for the faithful, there is always a cross to be carried. No one can understand Christianity to its depths who comes to it to enjoy it as a pleasant weekend diversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35545]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those quick scores took the wind out of our players' sails. That was tough to overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those quick scores took the wind out of our players' sails. That was tough to overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21004]]></link><description><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60598]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to prophesy their date,   Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will take many, many years to unwind, but we wouldn't count Lucent out, even with some of these problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31760]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will take many, many years to unwind, but we wouldn't count Lucent out, even with some of these problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though the latitude's rather uncertain,    And the longitude also is vague,     The persons I pity who know not the City      The beautiful City of Prague.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I need Him," may be an adequate formula for prayer. "I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet," is the only possible formula for worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7831</guid></item></channel></rss>