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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I am speaking in, all are the same in God, where this is but the now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60163]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is aware of how to kill the birds. This is the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is aware of how to kill the birds. This is the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nae man can tether time nor tide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nae man can tether time nor tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3406]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer is mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just played too well when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -Malcolm X. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -Malcolm X.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain,   And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  Continuing a series on the church:  The doctrine of the "body" in First ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist  Continuing a series on the church:  The doctrine of the "body" in First Corinthians... is a picture of the local church, (which) is distinguished by a great variety of gifts, outlooks, and cultures. The various members belong organically to each other in Christ, and are to exhibit that harmony practically in their common life. The recognition of how they differ from each other, and are yet one, is to enrich their worship, inspire their ministry, and quicken their love. To divide the local church is... to witness to a divided Christ, or to a discipleship to lesser masters than Christ, such as Paul or Apollos. Both implications are equally unthinkable. There is no New Testament pattern of serving the one Christ, except in one local body, formed by the incorporation given in the one baptism, and the continued life sustained by breaking and sharing the one bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/958]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat., Gratia, quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15479]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat., Gratia, quae tarda est, ingrata est: gratia namque  Cum fieri properat, gratia grata magis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's what I do for a living. I grew up doing it and this is what I love and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's what I do for a living. I grew up doing it and this is what I love and I hope to do it for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11582]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the prayer of the Pharisee is as the weary beating of the surf of hell, while the cry of a soul out of its fire sets the heart-strings of Love trembling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9645]]></link><description><![CDATA[We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56659]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17770]]></link><description><![CDATA[For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st thou sip and sip it up;    Make the most of life you may;     Life is short and wears away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53886]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   Is wiser than his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  A Christian cannot help being free, because in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is home, though it be never so homely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is home, though it be never so homely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23982]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting to look ahead and I'm doing that right now. I have to make the best decision for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that he is a very sincere person and that he has a passion for food and he wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that he is a very sincere person and that he has a passion for food and he wants to educate people about food. He's definitely one of a kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36895</guid></item></channel></rss>