Quote by Thomas Traherne
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehen

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. – Thomas Traherne

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them. – Thomas Traherne

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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Fathers palace and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. – Thomas Traherne

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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. – Graham Greene

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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. – Ouida

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The innocent is the person who explains nothing. – Albert Camus

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She looked as though butter wouldnt melt in her mouth –or anywhere else. – Else Lanchester

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