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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
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.
We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
And bleat the one at th' other. What read more
We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
That any did.
E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
That innocence can give,
When its resistless accents flow
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E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
That innocence can give,
When its resistless accents flow
To bid affection live.
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.
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it read more
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
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.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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.]
