“Thine eye was on the censer,
And not the hand that bore it.”
Lines by a Clerk; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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12:13 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=4380943 (KJV) Said to a man with a withered hand.
New Testament, Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 8–12

“There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine.”
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma

“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39

“Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.”
A Serenade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

"The Sunshine of thine Eyes" in Dreams and Days (1892).

“When Thou didst regard me,
Thine eyes imprinted in me Thy grace:”
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Context: When Thou didst regard me,
Thine eyes imprinted in me Thy grace:
For this didst Thou love me again,
And thereby mine eyes did merit
To adore what in Thee they saw. ~ 32
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88.

“Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.”
No. LXIV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: Here's ivy! — take them, as I used to do
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.