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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65495]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62112]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The operator doesn't have to stare at the screen and guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The operator doesn't have to stare at the screen and guess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics seem to reflect that many of the people who sought shelter in and around Houston have decided to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics seem to reflect that many of the people who sought shelter in and around Houston have decided to stay. Luckily, our market had the available supply of homes for sale and lease to absorb the number of people who needed a place to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547]]></link><description><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell your resolution beforehand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell your resolution beforehand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not good enough to rely on playing good offense or good defense. We need all three phases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30515]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not good enough to rely on playing good offense or good defense. We need all three phases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ROME The following abridged paraphrase of the Epistle to the Romans aims at presenting in a plain way the continuous sequence of the argument, while suggesting the free epistolary form of the original: My DEAR FELLOW-CHRISTIANS OF ROME,  Wherever I go I hear of your faith, and I thank God for it. It is a part of my daily prayers that I may be permitted to visit you. I believe such a visit would do you good, and I am sure it would do me good. In fact, I have tried again and again to get to Rome, but hitherto something has always turned up to prevent me. I shall not feel that my work as missionary to the Gentiles is complete until I have preached in Rome. My mission is a universal one, knowing no bounds of race or culture--naturally, since my message is a universal one. It is a message of God's righteousness, revealed to men on a basis of faith. (Rom. 1:1-17)  Apart from this, there is nothing to be seen in the world of today but the Nemesis of sin. Take the pagan world: all men have a knowledge of God by natural religion; but the pagan world has deliberately turned its back upon this knowledge, and, for all its boasted philosophy, has degraded religion into idolatry. The natural consequence is a moral perversity horrible to contemplate. (Rom. 1:18-32)  But you, my Jewish friend, need not dwell with complacency upon the sins of the pagan world. You are guilty yourself. Do not mistake God's patience with His people for indulgence. His judgments are impartial. Knowledge or ignorance of the Law of Moses makes no difference here. The pagans have God's law written in their conscience. If they obey it, well; if not, they stand condemned. And as for you--you call yourself a Jew and pride yourself on the Law. But have you kept all its precepts? You are circumcised and so forth: that goes for nothing; God looks at the inner life of motive and affection. An honest pagan is better than a bad Jew in His sight. I do not mean to say there is no advantage in being a Jew: of this more presently ; but read your Bible and take to yourself the hard words of the prophets--spoken, remember, not to heathens, but to people who knew the Law, just as you do. No, Jew and pagan, we are in the same case. No one can stand right before God on the basis of what he has actually done. Law only serves to bring consciousness of guilt. (Rom. 2:1-3:20)  But now, Law apart, we have a revelation of God's righteousness, as I was saying (Rom. 1:17). It comes by faith, the faith of Jesus Christ; and it comes to every one, Jew or Gentile, who has faith. We have all sinned, and all of us can be made to stand right with God. That is a free gift to us, due to His graciousness. We are emancipated in Christ Jesus, who is God's appointed means of dealing with sin--a means operating by the devotion of His life, and by faith on our part. It is thus that God, having passed over sins committed in the old days when He held His hand, demonstrates His righteousness in the world of to-day; i.e., it is thus that He both shows Himself righteous, and makes those stand right before Him who have faith in Jesus Christ. No room for boasting here! No distinction of Jew and Gentile here! (Rom. 3:21-31)  But what about Abraham? you will say. Did not he win God's graciousness by what he did? Not at all. Read your Bible, and you will find that the promise was given to him before he was circumcised; and the Bible expressly says that "he had faith in God, and that counted for righteousness." The same principle applies to us all. (Rom. 4:1-25)  To return to the point, then, we stand right with God on the ground of faith, and we are at peace with Him, come what may. God's love floods our whole being--a love shown in the fact that Christ died for us, not because we were good people for whom anyone might die, but actually while we were sinners. He died, not for His friends, but for His enemies. Very well then, if while we were enemies Christ died for us, surely He will save us now that we are friends! If He reconciled us to God by dying for us, surely He will save us by living for us, and in us. There is something to boast about! (Rom. 5:1-11)  Christ died and lives for us all, I say. But, you ask, how can the life and death of one individual have consequences for so many? You believe that we all suffer for Adam's sin; and if so, why should we not all profit by Christ's righteousness? Of course there is really no comparison between the power of evil to propagate itself, and the power of good to win the victory, for that is a matter of God's graciousness. However, you see my point : one man sinned--a whole race suffers for it; one Man lived righteously--a whole race wins life by it. But what about Law? you say. Law only came in by the way, to intensify the consciousness of guilt. (Rom. 5:12-21) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26301]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was such a gentle, fine person. One thing about Zeal ? he didn't want to make people mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31858]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was such a gentle, fine person. One thing about Zeal ? he didn't want to make people mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know one mistake is not going to beat you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44098]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is to use what we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until he be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so will he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,   In heaps and piles of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and His Angels thither; and when they are there, I neglect God and His Angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61442]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll get a check, ... But it might be six cents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35066]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll get a check, ... But it might be six cents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day;  Who did once upon the cross   Suffer to redeem our loss.    Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953</guid></item></channel></rss>