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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA["A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24753]]></link><description><![CDATA["A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60845]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59577]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of tenyears, plant trees; if in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22738]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of tenyears, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13374]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18894]]></link><description><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master loves to be aloft   And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51399]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In poison there is no physic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51304]]></link><description><![CDATA[In poison there is no physic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10195]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood),  Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,   Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There could be some small differences that, when they analyze the data, will pop out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32846]]></link><description><![CDATA[There could be some small differences that, when they analyze the data, will pop out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robin population is variable from one winter to the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robin population is variable from one winter to the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the appetite for buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the appetite for buying U.S. Treasuries and how far the Fed goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17237]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54093]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8395]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had never felt it. To His humanity, His assumed flesh, it seemed terrible -- Gethsemane bears witness how terrible it seemed; but He passed into it for love of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when lovers' vows   Seem sweet in every whispered word;    And gentle winds, and waters near,     Make music to the lonely ear.      Each flower the dews have lightly wet,       And in the sky the stars are met,        And on the wave is deeper blue,         And on the leaf a browner hue,          And in the heaven that clear obscure,           So softly dark, and darkly pure.            Which follows the decline of day,             As twilight melts beneath the moon away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23703]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,  Now nearer, crowns with her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45470]]></link><description><![CDATA[So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,  Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green,   As with a rural mound, the champain head    Of a steep wilderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31542</guid></item></channel></rss>