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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is one great art of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is one great art of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be left alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be left alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25502]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25506]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25492]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25496]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in a Garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in the Water, 1994.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Journal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25486]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Journal, December, 1900.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25487]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/138</guid></item></channel></rss>