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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4095]]></link><description><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always hated that hed never be able to donate blood for someone else, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29338]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always hated that hed never be able to donate blood for someone else,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high   Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,    He shall not blind his soul with clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47100]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  He who was raised from the dead will raise us also, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  He who was raised from the dead will raise us also, if we do His will and live by His commands and love what He loved, refraining from all injustice, covetousness, love of money, evil-speaking, false witness, not returning evil for evil or abuse for abuse, or blow for blow, or curse for curse, but remembering what the Lord said when He taught: Do not judge, so that you may not be judged; forgive and you will be forgiven; have mercy so that you may be shown mercy; with the measure you use men will measure back to you; and blessed are the poor and those who are persecuted for their uprightness, for the kingdom of Heaven belongs to them.  ... St. Polycarp, Letter to the Philippians February 24, 2000  In church government... our primary concern is to reflect the nature of God. Christ became man in order that He might redeem men from their fallen state, from their selfishness and self-isolating divisions from God and from each other; so that, gathered together in one in Him, man may offer to God that likeness to Himself in love for which he was created. Church government is primarily concerned with this: with worship, with the drawing of the whole life of the whole world into this reflection of the nature of God. It is secondly -- and only secondly -- concerned with the quarrels and peccadilloes of those who are not, as a matter of fact, imitating God's nature very faithfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed before their mothers' eyes, a grandfather forced to eat the liver of his own grandson. These are truly scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40681]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to abide with what they ruled. The league thinks if one team does it, everybody is going to do it, and it would set a precedent by letting everybody go there and get benefits above and beyond what the collective bargaining agreement calls for. I don't agree or disagree. That's what the league is ruling, and I'm going to abide by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39273]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would chuse to dy in Spain (where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49056]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is professed with greatest strictness).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2507]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife makes a good husband ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61853]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife makes a good husband]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37216]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34078]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs  My blood is liquid flame! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs  My blood is liquid flame!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  Many people despise those who spend their health, strength ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than I can see, Mother! In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, What is it?' The young Mole said, It is a pebble. His Mother exclaimed: My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, as far as I'm concerned (the petition) is coming out of a racist response. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, as far as I'm concerned (the petition) is coming out of a racist response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is the biggest disservice to middle-aged men. A lot of them used to look dignified, and now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is the biggest disservice to middle-aged men. A lot of them used to look dignified, and now they look like rumpled old men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow   He would be coy, and would not love at all;    Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,     Than love united to a jealous thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be doing better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40704]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be doing better and better when you get to election day, but people feel the economy's in a funk. The latest example of that was Bush's father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36595]]></link><description><![CDATA[No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7220</guid></item></channel></rss>