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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.
Author: William Blake
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.
Author: Robert Bloomfield
Source: The Drunken Father (st. 18)
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As innocent as a new-laid egg.
Author: William S. Gilbert
Source: Engaged (act I)
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An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
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."
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Source: The Farthest Shore
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What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
Author: Philip Massinger
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.]
Author: Caroline Matilda
Source: scratched on a window of the Castle Fredericksburg, Denmark
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He's armed without that's innocent within.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Racine
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.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander at II, ii)
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Hence, bashful cunning,
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Hermione at III, ii)
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O, white innocence,
That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide
Thine awful and serenest countenance
From those who know thee not!
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: The Cenci (act V, sc. 3, l. 24)
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Author: Lyman Abbott
Source: None
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A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
Author: Latin Proverb
Source: None
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Author: Bishop Robert South
Source: None
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Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
Author: Mary Astor
Source: None
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Unto the pure all things are pure.
Author: Bible, Titus 1:15
Source: None
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The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Source: None
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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
Author: Elizabeth E. Bowen
Source: None
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Author: Haliburton
Source: None
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
Author: Haug
Source: None
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