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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man, an angry man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are Batavian graces in all he says. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10207]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are Batavian graces in all he says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water owns a power Divine, And conscious blushes into wine;  Its very nature changed displays   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water owns a power Divine, And conscious blushes into wine;  Its very nature changed displays   The power Divine that it obeys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marketing is what you do when your product is no good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marketing is what you do when your product is no good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything, we did overkill, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything, we did overkill,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You guys line up alphabetically by height. (a Florida State football coach) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57557]]></link><description><![CDATA[You guys line up alphabetically by height. (a Florida State football coach)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48261]]></link><description><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18440]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63298]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3691]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are limited by knowledge, not by courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15890]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63830]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We understand when the international media fall into the trap of the Jewish settlers and run live coverage of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28232]]></link><description><![CDATA[We understand when the international media fall into the trap of the Jewish settlers and run live coverage of the evacuation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20960]]></link><description><![CDATA[What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7718]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us it is quite valueless, and has entirely failed; and, insofar as you and I are concerned, Christ was thrown away in vain. How, then, is it with you and me? Be very sure that upon Calvary it was no strange, immoral favouritism that came into operation, whereby because of some beliefs that remain mere dead letters, that produce no change whatever in their characters, some people living the same kind of life as others and following the same selfish interests and ends as they, are given a destiny entirely different. That is the vainest of vain dreams. Rather is this the supreme revelation of a new way of living life; and only those who -- blunderingly, it may be, yet honestly -- seek to adopt and imitate it can be counted really Christian folk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65565]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285   If I slip into the place that can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285   If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the departments were brought in and they were given an overview in terms of what we would need from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29472]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the departments were brought in and they were given an overview in terms of what we would need from them in order to make the process work, ... They are analyzing what their cut is in order to maintain the police and fire department levels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that the millennium was near, which precluded them from seeking to establish a beneficent regime in this world. In the time at their disposal, it was just not worth while. Perhaps the best hope of reviving the Christian religion would be to convince the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other dignitaries likewise, that the world will shortly be coming to an end. A difficult undertaking, I fear, notwithstanding much evidence pointing that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping   In sight, then lost amidst the forestry    Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping     On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;      A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown       On a fool's head--and there is London Town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hair so small but hath his shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49650]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hair so small but hath his shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills  With ravishment the listening hours,--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills  With ravishment the listening hours,--   Whisperings, wooings,    Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings     In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!      Dark the night       Yet is she bright,        For in her dark she brings the mystic star,         Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,          From some unknown afar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed   The lofty vault, to gather and roll back    The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,     Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down      And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks       And supplication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51881]]></link><description><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51881</guid></item></channel></rss>