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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12705]]></link><description><![CDATA[God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14168]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. [Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum  Non civium ardor prava jubentium,   Non vultus instantis tyranni,    Mente quatit solida.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43245]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  We think of the early sacrifices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  We think of the early sacrifices of those early Christians; but what struck them was the immensity of their inheritance in Christ. Take that one phrase (surely the most daring that the mind of man ever conceived), "We are the heirs of God." That is what they felt about it, that not God Himself could have a fuller life than theirs, and that even He would share all that He had with them! Tremendous words that stagger through their sheer audacity! And yet, here we are, whispering about the steepness of the way, the soreness of the self-denial, the heaviness of the cross, whining and puling, giving to those outside the utterly grotesque impression that religion is a gloomy kind of thing, a dim, monastic twilight where we sit and shiver miserably, out of the sunshine that God made for us, and meant us to enjoy -- that it is all a doing that nobody would naturally choose, and refraining from what everyone would naturally take: a species of insurance money grudgingly doled out lest some worse thing come upon us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,   Ha, ha, the wooing o't!    Maggie coost her head fu' high,     Looked asklent and unco skeigh,      Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:       Ha, ha! the wooing o't!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30104]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no bounties:  make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no bounties:  make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22596]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has a certain appeal in terms of solving a couple of problems on both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has a certain appeal in terms of solving a couple of problems on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["They shall return unto me with their whole heart." "Ye shall search for me with all your heart." He makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6675]]></link><description><![CDATA["They shall return unto me with their whole heart." "Ye shall search for me with all your heart." He makes a direct call to us for single-mindedness: a single-minded longing for Him -- no lesser aim will do; no desire to be good, no striving to measure up to some standard we have set for ourselves, to correct some failure we have been shown in our way of life. These may be temporarily necessary, but they will turn to dust and ashes, they will end in a grim dryness, unless at the back of them all is what He asks of us --a never-ending search for a real knowledge of Him, for a sense of His reality, a confidence in His companionship, a joy and delight in the very person of God Himself. It is for this that we must learn to long and long, till our prayers for it become not just a form of words, but a stretching out of our whole being to Him.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn    November 27, 1999  When God finished man He breathed into the human form the divine life, "and man became a living soul." Man is created to be a witness and likeness of God. God and man are so near to one another that it was possible for the Eternal Word to become Man without ceasing to be God, to re-ascend to the Highest without dehumanizing the Manhood which He had assumed; so near that the believer may say in the fullest meaning of the words, "I live, yet not I, but Christ".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57035]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27422]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23673]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25007]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly made up of little words, little deeds, little prayers, little sympathies, adding themselves together in unwearied succession. The Gospel is full of divine attempts to help and heal, in the body, mind and heart, individual men. The completed beauty of Christ's life is only the added beauty of little inconspicuous acts of beauty -- talking with the woman at the well; going far up into the North country to talk with the Syrophenician woman; showing the young ruler the stealthy ambition laid away in his heart, that kept him out of the kingdom of Heaven; shedding a tear at the grave of Lazarus; teaching a little knot of followers how to pray; preaching the Gospel one Sunday afternoon to two disciples going out to Emmaus; kindling a fire and broiling fish, that His disciples might have a breakfast waiting for them when they came ashore after a night of fishing, cold, tired, discouraged. All of these things, you see, let us in so easily into the real quality and tone of God's interests, so specific, so narrowed down, so enlisted in what is small, so engrossed in what is minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37702]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most investors, who do not want their returns squeezed, would insist that the original transactions are modified to contain risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18694]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39708]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit economy for that period of time might be a victim. But that's not a given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we have always had good players technically but in recent years we have not been able to convert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we have always had good players technically but in recent years we have not been able to convert that talent into international success,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is not a popular virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is not a popular virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the arm which won the victory he protects the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50813]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the arm which won the victory he protects the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you overall how we stand. Based on the information we receive, we'll build contingency plans off that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you overall how we stand. Based on the information we receive, we'll build contingency plans off that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50392]]></link><description><![CDATA[While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25616]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;   And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.    [Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere:     Un amour eternel en un moment concu.      La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire,       Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25616</guid></item></channel></rss>