Innocence

"I'm innocent in my head, like a baby born dead."

"Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice."

"Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last."

"Innocence once lost can never be regained."

"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."

"There is a vast difference between innocence and stupidity."

"In vain do they think themselves innocent who appropriate to their own use alone those goods which God gave in common; by not giving to others that which they themselves receive, they become homicides and murderers, inasmuch as in keeping for themselves those things which would alleviate the sufferings of the poor, we may say that every day they cause the death of as many persons as they might have fed and did not. When, therefore, we offer the means of living to the indigent, we do not give them anything of ours, but that which of right belongs to them. It is less a work of mercy which we perform than the payment of a debt."

"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."

"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."

"Innocence once lost, is lost forever."

"Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary."

"Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness — that means cynically and with innocence."

"I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. It is much better if you can imagine this endeavor more in the light of children’s play, in fact, rather than think of it as a deadly serious adult pursuit."

"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only. It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."

""Innocent people"? Nonsense! There's no such thing as an innocent person. We've all got a blemish or two in our hearts."

"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities."

"Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors."

"A story of innocence in a world of ignorance."

"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."

"E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give, When its resistless accents flow To bid affection live."

"O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres! O God, keep me innocent; make others great!"

"As innocent as a new-laid egg."

"An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away."

"On devient innocent quand on est malheureux."

"What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!"

"He's armed without that's innocent within."

"Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien à redouter."

"Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse."

"O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence, Love takes the meaning in love's conference."

"Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!"

"We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun, And bleat the one at the other; what we chang'd Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd That any did."

"I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience."

"O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide Thine awful and serenest countenance From those who know thee not!"