Mote

Famous quotes containing the word mote:

“Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound,
Of all that mote delight a daintie eare,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

“Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 7:3.

From the Sermon on the Mount.

“Alle fresh the level pasture lay,
And not a shadowe mote by seene,
Save where full fyve good miles away
The steeple towered from out the greene,”
—Jean Ingelow (1820–1897)