#innocence

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

— William C. Bryant

#fair #fruits #increase #innocence #remorse

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#beauty #because #character #discovered #happiness

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d ↗

— Alexander Pope

#mind

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#proceed #southerner #those #tolerant #usually

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#any #believe #entitled #i #i am

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#children #hard #i #i think #idea

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#age

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#anger

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#innocence #memories #art

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#claudius #decision #guilt #his #innocence