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No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

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.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same.

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

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.

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.