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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Smith and I have very similar ideas as far as schematics go, I think we compliment one another as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Smith and I have very similar ideas as far as schematics go, I think we compliment one another as coaches very well. He has also become a great friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43652]]></link><description><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56050]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him a little earth for charity! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46596]]></link><description><![CDATA[You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to have a big bruise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to have a big bruise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note;  Braggarts and prince of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note;  Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he,   Pouring boasts from his little throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60928]]></link><description><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19371]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead on the field of honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dead on the field of honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833 A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ROME (This abridged paraphrase of the Epistle to the Romans is continued from yesterday)  Now I come to a difficulty. I have heard people say, "If human sin gives play to God's graciousness, let us go on sinning to give Him a better chance. Why not do evil that good may come?" (Rom. 3:8) What nonsense! To be saved through Christ is to be a dead man so far as sin is concerned. Think of the symbolism of Baptism. You go down into the water: that is like being buried with Christ. You come up out of the water: that is like rising with Christ from the tomb. It means, therefore, a new life, a life which comes by union with the living Christ. You will admit that, once a man is dead, there is no more claim against him for any wrong he may have committed. He is like a slave set free from all claims on the part of his late master. Think, then, of yourselves as dead. When you remember the death of Christ, think that you--i.e., your old bad selves--were crucified with Him. And when you remember His resurrection, think of yourselves as living with Him, a new life. And above all, bear in mind that Christ, once risen, does not die again: and so you, living the new life in Him, need not die again. I mean, the sin that once dominated you need not any longer control you; do not let it! You are freed slaves; do not sell yourselves into slavery again. Or, if you like to put it so, you are now slaves, not of Sin, but of Righteousness (a very crude way of putting it, but I want to help you out). Just as once you were the property of Sin, and all your faculties were instruments of wrong, so now you are the property of Righteousness, and every faculty you have must be an instrument of right. Freed from sin, you are slaves of God; that is what I mean. The wages your old master paid was death. Your new Master makes you a present of life. (Rom. 6:1-23)  Or take another illustration. You know that by law a woman is bound to her husband while he lives; when he is dead she is free; she can marry again if she likes and the law has no claim against her. So you may think of yourselves as having been married to Sin, or to Law. Death has now released you from that marriage bond, though here the illustration halts, for it is Christ's death that has freed you! Well, anyhow, you are free--free, shall I say, to marry Christ. You had a numerous progeny of evil deeds by your first marriage; you must now produce an offspring of good deeds to Christ. I mean, of course, you must serve God in Christ's spirit. (Rom. 7:1-6)  Now I admit that all this sounds as though I identified law with sin. That is not my meaning. But surely it is clear that the function of law is to bring consciousness of sin; e.g., I should never have known what covetousness was but that the law said, "Thou shalt not covet." Such is the perversity of human nature under the dominion of sin that the very prohibition provokes me to covet. There was a time when I knew nothing of Law, and lived my own life. Then Law came, sin awakened in me, and life became death for me. Of course, Law is good, but Sin took advantage of it, to my cost. I am only flesh and blood, and flesh and blood is prone to sin. I can see what is good, and desire it, but I cannot practice it; i.e., my reason recognizes the law, and yet I break it through moral perversity. If you like to put it so, there is one law for my reason, the Law of God, and another for my outward conduct, the law of sin and death. It is like a living man chained to a dead body. It is perfect misery. But, thank God, the chain is broken! The law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ has set me free from the law of sin and death. Christ entered into this human nature of flesh and blood which is under the dominion of Sin. Sin put in its claim to be His master; but Christ won His case; Sin was non-suited, its claim disallowed, and human nature was free. The result is that all the Law stood for of righteousness, holiness, and goodness is fulfilled in those who live by Christ's Spirit. There are two possible forms of human life: there is the life of the lower nature of flesh and blood, of which I have spoken; and there is the life of the spirit. We have Christ's Spirit, and so we can live the life of the spirit. And in the end that Spirit will give new life to the whole human organism. (Rom. 7:7-8:11)  You see, then, that the flesh-and-blood nature has no claim upon us. We belong to the Spirit. Those who are actuated by that Spirit are sons of God. I used a while back the expression, "slaves of God "; but really we are not slaves but sons---sons and heirs of God, like Christ; and when we come into our inheritance, how glorious it will be! (Rom. 8:12-18)  This, however, is still in the future. At the present time the whole universe is in misery, and in its misery it waits for the revelation of God's sons. Now all existence seems futile in its transience; and even we still share creation's pangs. But we have hope; and the ground of that hope is the possession of God's Spirit--in a first installment only, but enough to reckon upon. The fact is that every prayer we utter--yes, even an inarticulate prayer--is the utterance of the Spirit within us. We know that all through God is working with us. His purpose is behind the whole process, and He is on our side. If He gave His Son, we can trust Him to give us everything else. He loves us, and nothing in the world or out of it can separate us from His love. (Rom. 8:18-39) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly 60 percent of those teachers eligible for retirement do not do so because of uncertainty about pensions and health ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly 60 percent of those teachers eligible for retirement do not do so because of uncertainty about pensions and health care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good walking with a horse in ones hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that, however angry he gets, he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage the next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it. Each of them, if he seriously turns to God, can have that twist in the central man straightened out again: each is, in the long run, doomed if he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends but on whatever they feel is worthy, without any external influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera: the graveyard of melody ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera: the graveyard of melody]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singletary and Reynolds score half of their points, so we knew they were the key to their victories every night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singletary and Reynolds score half of their points, so we knew they were the key to their victories every night. We just kind of keyed on them (and) didn't let them catch the ball in time to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is no substitute for a good personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is no substitute for a good personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66218]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22646]]></link><description><![CDATA[People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66432]]></link><description><![CDATA[After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46780</guid></item></channel></rss>