motes quotes

  • The air isnot sofull of motes, of atoms, asthe church is of mercies.

    -John Donne
      Sermons,'Christmas Day,1624'.

  • Hence vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixe'  d mind with all your toys; Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams.

    -John Milton
    c.1631 Il Penseroso, opening lines.

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