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" Friar Laurence:

O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
For nought to vile that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime's by action dignified. "

William Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet


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William Shakespeare quote : Friar Laurence:<br /><br />O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies<br />In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: <br />For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, <br />But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: <br />Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, <br />And vice sometime's by action dignified.