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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rising tide lifts all boats]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is sometimes equated with credulity, but it can be so equated only when the profound mistake is made of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is sometimes equated with credulity, but it can be so equated only when the profound mistake is made of thinking of faith as primarily a matter of intellectual assent. As the New Testament uses the word, faith is trust, acceptance, commitment, vision. It is not a belief in this or that creed, it is a quality which lies rather in the realm of intuition than the intellect. Faith has indeed an element of true simplicity; it is one of the qualities -- perhaps the fundamental quality -- of the child-like spirit without which no man can enter the Kingdom of God.  ... Anonymous December 16, 1996  But lo' the snare is broke, the captive's freed,  By faith on all the hostile powers we tread, And crush through Jesus' strength the Serpent's head.  Jesus hath cast the cursed Accuser down,  Hath rooted up the tares by Satan sown:  All nature bows to His benign command, And two are one in His almighty hand. One in His hand, O may we still remain,  Fast bound with love's indissoluble chain;  (That adamant which time and death defies, That golden chain which draws us to the skies!)  His love the tie that binds us to His throne,  His love the bond that perfects us in one,  His only love constrains our hearts t' agree,  And gives the rivet of Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11938]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have good home cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have good home cooking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't feel much pressure today. I got here, and that was an accomplishment. I got to take some great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't feel much pressure today. I got here, and that was an accomplishment. I got to take some great runs with my friends. It was great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14953]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just didn't hit the ball. She (Witte) pitched well, but I thought we had a chance because we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just didn't hit the ball. She (Witte) pitched well, but I thought we had a chance because we were able to hold them in the first game after getting down early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate,    Which in success oft disinherits,     For spurious causes, noblest merits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and I will not attempt to; but I will cast my anchor here in this revealing fact, that He, the Holiest of the Holy and the Wisest of the Wise, He prays. Therefore I am assured that this anchorage of Divine example will hold the vessel in the tossings of the wildest sea of doubt, and I shall be as safe as He was, if the vessel itself is engulfed in the waves of suffering and sorrow. His act is an argument. His prayer is an inspiration. His achievements are the everlasting and all-sufficient vindication of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1067]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when she was young. We would go to the batting cage and I would put it on 110 pitches. I told her as long as you at least foul the ball off there is no way you are going to strike out and that all you have to do is just nick the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53649]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  It was not the pleasant things in the world that came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  It was not the pleasant things in the world that came from the devil, and the dreary things from God! It was "sin brought death into the world and all our woe"; as the sin vanishes the woe will vanish too. God Himself is the ever-blessed God. He dwells in the light of joy as well as of purity, and instead of becoming more like Him as we become more miserable, and as all the brightness and glory of life are extinguished, we become more like God as our blessedness becomes more complete. The great Christian graces are radiant with happiness. Faith, hope, charity, there is no sadness in them; and if penitence makes the heart sad, penitence belongs to the sinner, not to the saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm,  But draw their swords to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm,  But draw their swords to do them good,   As doctors cure by letting blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48552]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The follow-on from this is that E.ON is unlikely to re-bid for Scottish Power in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The follow-on from this is that E.ON is unlikely to re-bid for Scottish Power in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50302]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers before a special session.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a question of us losing anymore. Now, we're going into the game knowing that we can win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a question of us losing anymore. Now, we're going into the game knowing that we can win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be pedestaled in triumph?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29942</guid></item></channel></rss>