Mote

Famous quotes containing the word mote:

“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)

“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.

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