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packman

(16,296 posts)
7. You MUST care about all the fungus, vile and creepy things on earth
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 01:30 PM
Jun 2017

As Friar Lawrence as he works in his garden , picks a flower, and says in Romeo and Juliet:

None but for some and yet all different.

Oh, mickle is the powerful grace that lies

In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live

But to the earth some special good doth give.

Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use

Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.

Within the infant rind of this small flower

Poison hath residence and medicine power.

For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;

Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.

Two such opposèd kings encamp them still,

In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,

And vice sometime by action dignified

Or, simply - know thou enemies - Look for some good to build on

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