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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The field is quite new, so its ultimate success at finding new drugs is still unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The field is quite new, so its ultimate success at finding new drugs is still unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564   It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to feel good about that offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34465]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to feel good about that offense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" — not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tough luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tough luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dave Weldon is the one who loses the most here because he isn't going out of his way to show ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dave Weldon is the one who loses the most here because he isn't going out of his way to show his complete record. He's going to let this case cloud his reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workplace in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workplace in a unique way. I encourage small-business owners and their employees to take their daughters to work with them on this special day, as I will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare,   Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye,    With greedy jawes her ready for to teare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40569]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51039]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the Lord Almighty for his blessings,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1443]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3237]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.  Wisdom and goodness they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17674]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.  Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools   Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore.    This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules:     'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32017]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower,  Before milk-white, now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower,  Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,   And maidens call it love-in-idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody roots for Goliath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody roots for Goliath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the people have no bread, let them eat cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41609]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm gonna retire but I'm not gonna retire totally from the music. I'm just gonna retire where I can go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm gonna retire but I'm not gonna retire totally from the music. I'm just gonna retire where I can go back and cut what I wanna cut at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55709]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so amazing, if I can use that word, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so amazing, if I can use that word,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39237</guid></item></channel></rss>