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.
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told read more
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?"
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
