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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man: He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;  But consistency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man: He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;  But consistency still wuz a part of his plan;   He's been true to one party, and that is, himself;--    So John P.     Robinson, he      Sez he shall vote for Gineral C.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race. There is something more true in his denunciation of idolatry as sin than in our denial that it is possible for a man to worship an idol, or in our suggestion that all idolatry is only a road to spiritual worship of the one true God... One day, I think, we shall return to these stern doctrines, realizing in them a truth more profound than we now know, and then we shall preach them with conviction, and, being convinced ourselves, we shall convince others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61133]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass,   Surge at her, mass on mass,    Still shall you break like glass,     Splinter and break like shivered glass,      But pass?       You shall not pass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But tomorrow is going to be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36699]]></link><description><![CDATA[But tomorrow is going to be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14125]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. - Inward Ho.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22813]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. -Alexander Graham Bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thus: if powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do,  I doubt not then but innocence shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thus: if powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do,  I doubt not then but innocence shall make   False accusation blush and tyranny    Tremble at patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in:  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62186]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in:  But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,   It is the worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  O God in heaven, have mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  O God in heaven, have mercy on us! Lord Jesus Christ, interecede for your people, deliver us at the opportune time, preserve in us the true genuine Christian faith, collect your scattered sheep with your voice, your divine Word as Holy Writ calls it. Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. Finally a neighbor said to them, If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport. Abstain and enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure its cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure its cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have to have body guards yet, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have to have body guards yet,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar   From the sphere of our sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65276]]></link><description><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9815]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe,   Companions of the spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first one to quarrel, nor the last to make up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first one to quarrel, nor the last to make up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect he will be set free soon, but not within days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35877]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters. [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49688]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters. [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The river past, and God forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The river past, and God forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46146</guid></item></channel></rss>