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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.]
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.
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.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
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.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
