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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to basketball, I've never been nervous in my life. Why start now? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to basketball, I've never been nervous in my life. Why start now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the promise of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the promise of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59602]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three lessons I would write,  Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,  Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,  And gladness hides her face in scorn,  Put off the shadow from thy brow:  No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven -  The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,  The inhabitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,  But man, as man, thy brother call;  And scatter, like a circling sun,  Thy charities on all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moe was like their child in many ways, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moe was like their child in many ways,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51615]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends!  She gratefully receives what Heav'n ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9945]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends!  She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent,   And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38143]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41306]]></link><description><![CDATA[His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a situation where other figures cannot contradict him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the first game this year that I told the girls that I'll probably go home and not sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the first game this year that I told the girls that I'll probably go home and not sleep very well, running that game through my head. That was definitely one that we had a good chance of winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter of complaint, that we are fallen into so profane and skeptical an age, which takes a pleasure and a pride in unraveling almost all the received principles both of religion and reason, so that we are put many times to prove those things which can hardly be made plainer than they are of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42419]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare your breath to cool your porridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare your breath to cool your porridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of this or that individual statesman or group of statesmen. Idealists make a great mistake in not facing the real facts sincerely and resolutely. They believe in the power of the spirit, in the goodness which is at the heart of things, in the triumph which is in store for the great moral ideals of the race. But this great faith only too often leads to an optimism which is sadly and fatally at variance with actual results. It is the realist and not the idealist who is generally justified by events. We forget that the human spirit, the spirit of goodness and truth in the world, is still only an infant crying in the night, and that the struggle with darkness is as yet mostly an unequal struggle. . . . Paris proved this terrible truth once more. It was not Wilson who failed there, but humanity itself. It was not the statesmen that failed, so much as the spirit of the peoples behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote: 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/66529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote: 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/66529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34166]]></link><description><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to a growth track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked well together. There was a lot of nice passing today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked well together. There was a lot of nice passing today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,  That wear upon your virgin branches yet   Your maidenheads growing. O, Proserpina,    For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall     From Dis's wagon; daffodils,      That come before the swallow dares, and take       The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,        But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes         Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,          That die unmarried, ere they can behold           Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady            Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and             The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,              The flower-de-luce being one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For smiles from reason flow To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56682]]></link><description><![CDATA[For smiles from reason flow To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62377]]></link><description><![CDATA[WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66852]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66852</guid></item></channel></rss>