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Definition of Keeping
Keeping

of Keep

A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.

Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.

Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.

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Keeping Quotations

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.
Jim Ramstad

Keeping Translations

keeping in French is gardant
keeping in German is haltend, aufbewahrend


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