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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[History: A distillation of rumor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19348]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: A distillation of rumor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a green tree in your heart, and maybe one day a bird will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a green tree in your heart, and maybe one day a bird will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish to be cured is half way towards cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51206]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, without anxiety; repentest, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, without anxiety; repentest, yet grievest not; art angry, yet serene; changest Thy works, Thy purpose unchanged; receivest again what Thou findest, yet didst never lose; never in need, yet rejoicing in gains; never covetous, yet exacting usury. Thou receivest over and above, that Thou mayest owe; and who hath aught that is not Thine? Thou payest debts, owing nothing; remittest debts, losing nothing. And that have I now said, my God, my life, my holy joy? or what saith any man when he speaks of Thee? Yet woe to him that speaketh not, since mute are even the most eloquent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A greater liar than the Parthians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50175]]></link><description><![CDATA[A greater liar than the Parthians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California is a tough team and it was a tough few innings, but I think we just got lucky. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40567]]></link><description><![CDATA[California is a tough team and it was a tough few innings, but I think we just got lucky. We started hitting and they walked a few batters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49648]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54044]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1094]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633]]></link><description><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they have a job or are not sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right as a trivet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right as a trivet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare except my genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare except my genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dad is running around in jeans and a T-shirt, you want to look different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35657]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dad is running around in jeans and a T-shirt, you want to look different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49991]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of life are very stubborn things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of life are very stubborn things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49392]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, then admiring a celebrity can have a positive influence on your ambition, or even your mental health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to read Shakespeare but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to read Shakespeare but to act it and perform it didn't. That is the perfect illustration of why these students should get honors credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   And frights the school-boy from his play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27262]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Thanks to Ayn Fox -Pablo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance. Thanks to Ayn Fox -Pablo Casals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That could be moved to smile at anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a big game both sides. We control what we do and need to continue working hard to achieve it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a big game both sides. We control what we do and need to continue working hard to achieve it. We do know we need to win and take care of business before we do all the figuring. Practice has been excellent and the kids have picked it up and that's what we need to do Friday to compete against a good football team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood;  Maple and elm and towering pine   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood;  Maple and elm and towering pine   Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19690</guid></item></channel></rss>