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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46992]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get some momentum going in this last game against Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get some momentum going in this last game against Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   This Gospel accords perfectly with the account which St. Paul gives of his preaching in the last address to the Ephesian elders, and it contains all the elements which are to be found in all the sermons and in all the notices of St. Paul's preaching in the Acts, except only the answers to the objections against the Gospel, and the proofs of its truth, which would be manifestly out of place in writing to Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivers neede a spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivers neede a spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  It is the Church's mission to confront the world from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  It is the Church's mission to confront the world from the Godward side of life with the Christian principles of a free and just society. The dignity, the value, and the importance of every individual are made abundantly clear by the Son of God. He has shown us what human life is intended to be, and we must be willing to stand against whatever is amiss in the temper and disposition of the world, or of any segment of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The purpose of the covenant, in the Hebrew Bible and some subsequent writings, was never simply that the creator wanted to have Israel as a special people, irrespective of the fate of the rest of the world. The purpose of the covenant was that, through this means, the creator would address and save his entire world. The call of Abraham was designed to undo the sin of Adam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48483]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere fugiamus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the test of the new life sermon; the girding on of armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and I against any two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and I against any two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest poetry was first experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest poetry was first experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1684]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making sure people know about options to the high-priced brand name drugs could mean a world a difference for many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making sure people know about options to the high-priced brand name drugs could mean a world a difference for many New Yorkers, especially those who pay full retail for their drugs. We are fighting to ensure the drug that ends up in your medicine cabinet is the very best one for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for prayer. And the chief of them is this: "Do not lie to God." And that curt piece of advice, so bluntly thrown down for us, is indeed all-important. Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exagerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51485]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27266]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25136]]></link><description><![CDATA[He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66644]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52820]]></link><description><![CDATA[He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It still doesn't account for the way we played interior defense and the way we played interior offense. I'm disappointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It still doesn't account for the way we played interior defense and the way we played interior offense. I'm disappointed with our effort tonight. We didn't play with much poise. I expected more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56201]]></link><description><![CDATA[To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course one should not drink much, but often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course one should not drink much, but often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64873]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64873</guid></item></channel></rss>