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"It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses." »Charles Peguy
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"Ignorance is not innocence but sin." »Robert Browning
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"Now my innocence begins to weigh me down." »Francois Rabelais
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"The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example." »Robert Hall
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"innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance." »William Blake
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"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb." »Nadine Gordimer
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"The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute." »William Shakespeare
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"The trust I have is in mine innocence,
and therefore am I bold and resolute." »William Shakespeare
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"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning." »A. E. Housman
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"No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk." »Moliere
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"An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation." »Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
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"We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles." »Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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"A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot." »Alan Marshall Beck
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"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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"The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago." »Dorothea Brande
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"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley
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