"The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute."
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"But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away"
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"There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable."
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"The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common."
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"Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin."
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"What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?"
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"What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence."
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"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
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"Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious."
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"A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread."
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"To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels."
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"So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources."
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"All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story."
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"Innocence has a friend in heaven."
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"Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence."
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"Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence."
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"It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished"
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"Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good."
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"For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life."
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"I think there's an innocence to me."
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