"Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence."
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"Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance."
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"In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good."
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"Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence."
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"One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence."
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"Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes."
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"What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law."
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"My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me."
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it."
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"Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots."
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"For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment."
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"Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame."
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"Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind."
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"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."
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"This innocence begins to weigh me down."
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"Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness."
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"The day is not purer than the depths of my heart."
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"Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice."
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"The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase."
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