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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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Louis d'or : Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.

 
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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