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“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso Quotes |
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“The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.”
Charles de Lint Quotes |
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“The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time”
William Butler Yeats Quotes |
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“Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.”
Francis Thompson Quotes |
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“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end”
Lise Hand Quotes |
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“A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men”
Martin Fraquhar Tupper Quotes |
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“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"”
Howard Ikemoto Quotes |
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“Innocence is always unsuspicious.”
Thomas C. Haliburton Quotes |
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“Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance”
Proverb Quotes |
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“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower:
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
William Blake Quotes Source: Auguries of Innocence
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“E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
That innocence can give,
When its resistless accents flow
To bid affection live.”
Robert Bloomfield Quotes Source: The Drunken Father (st. 18)
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“As innocent as a new-laid egg.”
William S. Gilbert Quotes Source: Engaged (act I)
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“An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 293)
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“We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
[Fr., On devient innocent quand on est malheureux.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes Source: Nymphes de Vaux
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“"In innocence there is no strength against evil," said
Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is strength in it for
good."”
Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes Source: The Farthest Shore
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“What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted!”
Philip Massinger Quotes Source: Maid of Honor (act V, sc. 2)
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“O God, keep me innocent; make others great!
[Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux
autres.]”
Caroline Matilda Quotes Source: scratched on a window of the Castle Fredericksburg, Denmark
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“He's armed without that's innocent within.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Epistles of Horace (ep. I, bk. I, l. 93)
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“But innocence has nothing to dread.
[Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]”
Jean Baptiste Racine Quotes Source: Phedre (III, 6)
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“What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to
the law.
[Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: De Ira (II, 27)
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“O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander at II, ii)
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“Hence, bashful cunning,
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tempest (Miranda at III, i)
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“We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
That any did.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at I, ii)
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“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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (Hermione at III, ii)
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