We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise C...ommiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves--and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not... to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In time even the rocks will grow. And if you have curled and dandled Your innocence once too often, what attitude isn't then ...really yours?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence... Are harvested by accredited experience Our fondest memories soon turn to poison And only oblivion remains in season.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innoc...ence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prayer is the fair and radiant daughter of all the human virtues, the arch connecting heaven and earth, the sweet companion that i...s alike the lion and the dove; and prayer will give you the key of heaven. As pure and as bold as innocence, as strong as all things are that are entire and single, this fair and invincible queen rests on the material world; she has taken possession of it; for, like the sun, she casts about it a sphere of light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you a...re stupefied by its innocence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church.... We have a free choice, but at a price. ...We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credu...lous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »