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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62002]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can   Will whyles do mair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56854]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15105]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many ordinary treasures may be denied the man who has God, or if he is allowed to have them, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many ordinary treasures may be denied the man who has God, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not worried about facing Belgium. I get worried about things like the speed of bullets if I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not worried about facing Belgium. I get worried about things like the speed of bullets if I had to go to war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the foundational key to all success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the foundational key to all success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33065]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the skill then as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You take a triple crown guy off your team, you're going to feel the effects. Conversely, I think we'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32145]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take a triple crown guy off your team, you're going to feel the effects. Conversely, I think we'll be stronger throughout the lineup this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26561]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn,  Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing pleasant   As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Continuing a short series about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Continuing a short series about the early church:   The life of the early Church lay in constant intercommunication between all its parts; its health and growth were dependent on the free circulation of the life-blood of common thought and feeling. Hence it was firmly seated first on the great lines of communication across the empire, leading from its origin in Jerusalem to its imperial center in Rome. It had already struck root in Rome within little more than twenty years after the Crucifixion, and it had become really strong in the great city about thirty years after the Apostles began to look round and out from Jerusalem. This marvelous development was possible only because the seed of the new thought floated free on the main currents of communication, which were ever sweeping back and forward between the heart of the Empire and its outlying members. Paul, who mainly directed the great movement, threw himself boldly and confidently into the life of the time; he took the Empire as it was, accepted its political conformation and arrangement, and sought only to touch the spiritual and moral life of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12144]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others to assist.   [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist    Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,     Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's premature at this point in time to call it a prank or a hoax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's premature at this point in time to call it a prank or a hoax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16632]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining: everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but wholly ... given up to God to be where and what and how He pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the friend who was once your foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the friend who was once your foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true ship is the ship builder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true ship is the ship builder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are back in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are back in business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and in such spending of what we are lent, we find there is an infinite supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56947]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41978]]></link><description><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow;  A heavenly paradise is that place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow;  A heavenly paradise is that place,   Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.    There cherries grow that none may buy,     Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14854</guid></item></channel></rss>