In other men we faults can spy And blame the mote that dims the eye Each little spark and blemish find To our own stronger errors blind Ere we remark anothers sin Let our own conscience look within

Full Text: In other men we faults can spy And blame the mote that dims the eye Each little spark and blemish find To our own stronger errors blind Ere we remark anothers sin Let our own conscience look within
Listed on Page Number: 326
Sampler Worked By: No maker's name given in B&C
Date of Sampler: 1825
Place Sampler Made: n.p.
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Author/Publication/Country/Date: Gay, John. Fifty-one Fables, by the late Mr. Gay, Author of the Beggar’s Opera, Amsterdam: J. Jones, 1734, pp. 72-73.
Notes: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_fifty-one-fables-by-the_gay-john_1734 There is no sampler attached to this verse. The first four of these lines are the introductory verses to Fable XXXVIII, The Turkey and the Ant. The last two lines are the penultimate couplet and contain the moral of the story.