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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers grow out of dark moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers grow out of dark moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Need To Know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I Need To Know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't learn less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't learn less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire, is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An infant when it gazes on a light, A child the moment when it drains the breast,  A devotee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23418]]></link><description><![CDATA[An infant when it gazes on a light, A child the moment when it drains the breast,  A devotee when soars the Host in sight,   An Arab with a stranger for a guest,    A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,     A miser filling his most hoarded chest,      Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping       As they who watch o'er what they love while sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44457]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe  Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life,  The very Life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life,  The very Life of Life.   In its brief course lie all the Varieties    And Realities of your Existence;     The Bliss of Growth,      The Glory of Action,       The Splendor of Beauty;        For Yesterday is but a Dream,         And Tomorrow is only a Vision;          But Today well lived           Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,            And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.             Look well therefore to this Day!              Such is the Salutation of Dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is gravy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed. [Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da wird er reussieren.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed. [Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da wird er reussieren.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47976]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30716]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62923]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63843]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to blame someone else, especially if they are smaller than you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to blame someone else, especially if they are smaller than you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never know where the limit will be. These are sacred places and really shouldn't be opened to this kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34601]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never know where the limit will be. These are sacred places and really shouldn't be opened to this kind of activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65316]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I’ll tell you, few things make me more angry than some out of touch Washington politician saying that Head ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61230]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I’ll tell you, few things make me more angry than some out of touch Washington politician saying that Head Start doesn’t work. That’s a flat out lie and it’s disrespectful to you and the tens of thousands of Americans who make this program work for children every single day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45343]]></link><description><![CDATA[O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are times when patience proves at fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45712]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are times when patience proves at fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but the brave deserve the fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48948]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but the brave deserve the fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hair is the richest ornament of women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hair is the richest ornament of women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4338</guid></item></channel></rss>