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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40419]]></link><description><![CDATA[cautiously optimistic about the plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to doing all the different events and competing against other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36941]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to doing all the different events and competing against other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7175]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong that is or can be done unto Him. This we see in Christ when He saith: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."  ... Theologia Germanica  June 21, 1998  Alas! day by day we ask that His Will may be done, and yet, when it comes to the doing, we find it so hard! We offer ourselves so often to God -- we continually say, "Lord, I am Thine, I give Thee my heart," and when He accepts it, we are such cowards. How dare we call ourselves His, if we cannot shape our own wills to His?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody in this room cares about kids and nobody wants to trash the Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody in this room cares about kids and nobody wants to trash the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got unsung heroes in that school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40562]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got unsung heroes in that school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fury itself supplies arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fury itself supplies arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.   Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley    Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse     Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us;      And bid her steal into the pleached bower,       Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,        Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites,         Made proud by princes, that advance their pride          Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her           To listen our propose. This is thy office.            Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1960s and 1970s, the mine had already played out and several companies used it as a place to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1960s and 1970s, the mine had already played out and several companies used it as a place to put hazardous waste materials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48371]]></link><description><![CDATA[New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58077]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like men who have a future and women who have a past ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like men who have a future and women who have a past]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a gutsy call. Somebody's got to get through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28382]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a gutsy call. Somebody's got to get through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is a mask you believe in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is a mask you believe in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15027]]></link><description><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way out is always through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way out is always through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; Aterrace nine stories high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; Aterrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of athousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the truth is often a great lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the truth is often a great lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. The Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot, Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces, and besides, I by no means wish to come near you. Equals make the best friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1607</guid></item></channel></rss>