I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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Summer has come and passed. The innocent can never last.
Innocence once lost cannot be regained.
A story of innocence in a world of ignorance.
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.
William Butler YeatsResentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only. It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
william blakeHe's armed without that's innocent within.
Alexander PopeO, white innocence,That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hideThine awful and serenest countenanceFrom those who know thee not!
Percy Bysshe ShelleyEvery life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
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.
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only. It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, and glides in modest innocence away.
samuel johnsonHence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
william shakespeare