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 O God, keep me innocent; make others great!
 [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux 
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 O God, keep me innocent; make others great!
 [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux 
autres.] 
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to read more
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
 But innocence has nothing to dread.
 [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]  
 But innocence has nothing to dread.
 [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.] 
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
 What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to 
the law.
 [Lat., Quam angusta read more 
 What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to 
the law.
 [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse.] 
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.
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.
Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance
Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance
 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.