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Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
"In innocence there is no strength against evil," said
Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is strength in it read more
"In innocence there is no strength against evil," said
Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is strength in it for
good."
An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.
An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of read more
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.
