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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6322]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has first found an assurance of it in his personal experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23139]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are here for my education. I don't want to walk out of class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41582]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are here for my education. I don't want to walk out of class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though it's raining, it has really been a perfect day to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though it's raining, it has really been a perfect day to run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it the extremist, or the media, that blow things up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it the extremist, or the media, that blow things up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44652]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The odds are that things are going to be a little stronger than people anticipate in another month or so. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The odds are that things are going to be a little stronger than people anticipate in another month or so. With the exception of the labor market data, which will continue to stink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1736]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angry poor people are 'enraged.'  Angry rich people are 'livid.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Angry poor people are 'enraged.'  Angry rich people are 'livid.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60980]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process here of learning to think movement. Clowns, dancers, mimes think movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process here of learning to think movement. Clowns, dancers, mimes think movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lie is a condition of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lie is a condition of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41366]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42048]]></link><description><![CDATA[One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, and contrary to Him.  ... Theologia Germanica  March 10, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine  March 11, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  In case our sins have been public and scandalous, both reason and the practice of the Christian Church do require that when men have publicly offended they should give public satisfaction and open testimony of their repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20415]]></link><description><![CDATA[And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13538]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52502]]></link><description><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45609]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark  As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2797]]></link><description><![CDATA[How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60159]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ especially for a position as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33140]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ especially for a position as important as this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free agent is anything but. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free agent is anything but.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never get enough of what you don't want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21616]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never get enough of what you don't want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see things not as they are but as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see things not as they are but as we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue on earth,  The shapes we chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue on earth,  The shapes we chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58902]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58902</guid></item></channel></rss>