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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;  For 'tis a throne where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56137]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;  For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned   Sole monarch of the universal earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something this famous has no value left, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something this famous has no value left,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hatt is not made for one shower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49035]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hatt is not made for one shower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   Visit, I beseech thee, O Lord, this habitation with thy mercy, and me with thy grace and salvation. Let thy holy angels pitch their tents round about and dwell here, that no illusion of the night may abuse me, the spirits of darkness may not come near to hurt me, no evil or sad accident oppress me; and let the eternal Spirit of the Father dwell in my soul and body, filling every corner of my heart with light and grace. Let no deed of darkness overtake me; and let thy blessing, most blessed God, be upon me for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52896]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May  New blooming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May  New blooming blossoms 'neath the sun are born,   And all poor April's charms are swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649  The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. Christians should seek for inner enlargement till their outward dimension gives no hint of the vastness within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25932]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28436]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning to those who do not abide by law and justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10146]]></link><description><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have yet to achieve needed traction there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30310]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have yet to achieve needed traction there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14358]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined. [Lat., Equidem aeterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum atentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61224]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;  Or leave a kiss but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;  Or leave a kiss but in the cup,   And I'll not look for wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our staff did a good job of getting ahead in the count with many of their hitters. They are a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our staff did a good job of getting ahead in the count with many of their hitters. They are a great hitting ball club. Benton did an exceptional job for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43218]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43218</guid></item></channel></rss>