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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Where passion leads or prudence points the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where passion leads or prudence points the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/971]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo.. were war criminalsinterviews recorded in the movie The Fogof War.. (the firebombing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10223]]></link><description><![CDATA[All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo.. were war criminalsinterviews recorded in the movie The Fogof War.. (the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs..100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs..500,000 altogether over several days say some).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head   Fell carelessly behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is once borne, once must dy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is once borne, once must dy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have heard the chimes at midnight. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have heard the chimes at midnight. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20380]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are in danger. Trouble in itself is always a claim on love, and God is love. He must deny Himself if He does not come to help the helpless. It is the prisoners, and the blind, and the leper, and the possessed, and the hungry, and the tempest-tossed, who are His special care. Therefore if you are lost and sick and bound, you are just in the place where He can meet you. Blessed are the mourners. They shall be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66204]]></link><description><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all powers the mightiest far art thou,   Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven;    Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld     One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2176]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54522]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall  To give us is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48373]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall  To give us is adverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20721]]></link><description><![CDATA[for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God." This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64393]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday  Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761  Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday  Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761  Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955  Our Blessed Lord hath recommended His love to us as the pattern and the example of our love to one another. As, therefore, He is continually making intercession for us all, so ought we to intercede and pray for one another. "A new commandment," saith He, "I give unto you, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another." The newness of this precept did not consist in this, that men were commanded to love one another for this was an old precept, both of the law of Moses and of nature. But it was new in this respect, that it was to initiate a new and, till then, unheard-of example of love; it was to love one another as Christ had loved us. And if men are to know that we are disciples of Christ, by thus loving one another according to His new example of love, then it is certain that if we are void of this love we make it as plainly known unto men that we are none of His disciples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all is lost!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is art? Nature concentrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43768]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is art? Nature concentrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39468]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25782]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the principles of infidelity from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the principles of infidelity from a superficial view of the Scriptures. Fully persuaded that the Bible was an imposture, they were determined to expose [it]. Mr. West chose the Resurrection of Christ, and Lord Lyttleton the conversion of St Paul, for the subject of hostile criticism. Both sat down to their respective tasks full of prejudice and a contempt for Christianity. The results of their separate endeavours was that they were both converted by their attempts to overthrow the truth of Christianity! They came together, not as they had expected, to exult over an imposture exposed to ridicule, but to lament their folly and congratulate each other on their joint conviction, that the Bible was the word of God. Their able enquiries have furnished two most valuable treatises in favour of revelation -- one, entitled "Observations on the Conversion of St Paul", and the other, "Observations on the Resurrection of Christ.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3476</guid></item></channel></rss>