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Keats' . Two orders of poets I admit, but no third; the creative (Shakespeare, Homer, Dante), and reflective or perceptive (Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson); and both these must be first-rate {Ruskin.}
Keeping . Getting is easier than keeping. - Gewinnen ist leichter als Erhalten {German. Proverb.}
Keeping . He that hath care of keeping days of payment is lord of another man's purse. {Lord Burleigh.}
Keeping . He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. {Izaak Walton.}
Keeping . He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. {Goldsmith.}
Keeping . I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table. {Lord Burleigh.}
Keeping . Just a path that is sure, / Thorny or not, / And a heart honest and pure / Keeping the path that is sure, / That be my lot. {Dr. W. Smith.}
Keeping . Keeping from falling is better than helping up. {Proverb.}
Keeping . Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. {Emerson.}
Keeping . Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. {Emerson.}
 
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Biliverdin : n. A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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