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"Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary."
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Innocence
Innocence is a lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, or wrongdoing. In a legal context, innocence is prior to the sense of legal guilt and is a primal emotion connected with the sense of self. It is often confused as being the opposite of the guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime. In other contexts, it is a lack of experience.
"Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary."
"Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last."
"O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide Thine awful and serenest countenance From those who know thee not!"
"There is a vast difference between innocence and stupidity."
"Innocence once lost can never be regained."
"Innocent people"? Nonsense! Theres no such thing as an innocent person. Weve all got a blemish or two in our hearts."
"Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors."
"Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice."
"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."
"On devient innocent quand on est malheureux."
"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."
"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."