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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50527]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43985]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He held his seat; a friend to human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19952]]></link><description><![CDATA[He held his seat; a friend to human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36701]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62253]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one country implicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42618]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one country implicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day the church here (in Antioch] feeds 3000 people. Besides this, the church daily helps provide food and clothes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day the church here (in Antioch] feeds 3000 people. Besides this, the church daily helps provide food and clothes for prisoners, the hospitalized, pilgrims, cripples, churchmen, and others. If only ten [other groups of] people were willing to do this, there wouldn't be a single poor man left in town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thus burying your poor sardonyx? Such rings are more suited to your legs the weight is too great for fingers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets, ... As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death keepes no Calender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death keepes no Calender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See and to be seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56254]]></link><description><![CDATA[See and to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all going to decline within a decade of each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans start working with Africa. We've got the money. We need to go back home to our people and free them from their misery and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair of all recovery spoils longevity, And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair of all recovery spoils longevity, And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58610]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up,   Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4839]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Near, so very near to God, Nearer I cannot be;  For in the person of his Son   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Near, so very near to God, Nearer I cannot be;  For in the person of his Son   I am as near as he.    So dear, so very dear to God,     More dear I cannot be;      The love wherewith he loves the Son -       Such is his love to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more my wrong, the more his spite appears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From wonder into wonder existence opens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61954]]></link><description><![CDATA[From wonder into wonder existence opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might   And now was queen of land and sea.    No sound was heard of clashing wars,     Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain;      Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars,       Held undisturbed their ancient reign,        In the solemn midnight,         Centuries ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29211]]></link><description><![CDATA["The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew Abood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if you ride your bike a mile away, she is not gonna find you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40373]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if you ride your bike a mile away, she is not gonna find you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37609]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of life and see where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was encouraging for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39182]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was encouraging for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39182</guid></item></channel></rss>