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Maxim   /mˈæksəm/   Listen
noun
Maxim  n.  
1.
An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism. "'T is their maxim, Love is love's reward."
2.
(Mus.) The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.
Synonyms: Axiom; aphorism; apothegm; adage; proverb; saying. See Axiom.





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"Maxim" Quotes from Famous Books



... which distinguish the American. Observe that the provision against throwing dirt on another man's claim anticipated by many years the famous hydraulic decision of Judge Sawyer. It is another way of stating the maxim of law and equity: 'so use your own property, as not ...
— A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country • Thomas Dykes Beasley
... thirty to forty paces from each other, which served as schanzes. In each of these trenches were placed ten to thirty men. They had also a Maxim-Nordenfeldt, which, at first, kept up a hot fire; but soon was silenced as the gunners were shot down. The rest of the troops retired with the gun, but had to leave the caisson behind them. It was evident to me from the way in which they fired ...
— Three Years' War • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
... This maxim in the statesman's school Is always taught, divide and rule. All parties are to him a joke: While zealots foam, he fits the yoke. Let men their reason once resume; 'Tis then the ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... limbs." "The special laws of the Sabbath are: 1. To rest from all labor; 2. To recruit our physical energies by rest and innocent enjoyments; 3. To sanctify our moral nature; 4. To improve our intellect." "The best maxim of conduct to our parents is, treat them as you would wish to be treated by your children." "No offensive words or actions afford a shadow of justification for killing a human being, or injuring him in his limbs or health." "Only self-defence with equal arms, defence of others, or ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 • Various
... could float which, bulk for bulk, is lighter than the mass of liquid displaced by it; and so we now make iron float by the very same law by which it sinks, because by the introduction of the PERSONAL factor, we provide conditions which do not occur spontaneously—according to the esoteric maxim that "Nature unaided fails." Now we want to apply the same process of specializing a generic Law to the first of all Laws, that of the generic life-giving tendency of Spirit itself. Without the element of INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY the ...
— The Dore Lectures on Mental Science • Thomas Troward


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