Mote Quotes
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 7:3.
So longe mote ye lyve, and alle proude, Til crowes feet be growen under youre y'.
Geoffrey Chaucer— c.1385 Troilus and Criseyde, bk 2, l.402-3.
The sunshine of thine eyes,(O still celestial beam!)Whatever it touches it fillsWith the life of its lambent gleam.The sunshine of thine eyes,Oh, let it fall on me!Though I be but a mote of the air,I could turn to gold for thee.
— "The Sunshine of thine Eyes" in Dreams and Days (1892).
Sin in the conscience, is like Jonah in a ship, which causeth such a tempest, that the conscience is like a troubled sea, whose waters cannot rest, or it is like a mote in the eye, which causeth a perpetual trouble while it is there.
— Thomas Brooks in A Cabinet of Jewels (1669) from Works of Thomas Brooks, Vol. 3, Nichol's Series of Standard Divines, Puritan Period, with General Preface by John C. Miller, D.D.; Rev. Thomas Smith, General Editor, Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1866. pg.295.
