Not what thou arte, ne what thou hast ben, beholdeth God with his mercyful iye; bot that thou woldest be.

-Anonymous
c.1370  The Cloud of Unknowing, ch.75.

I know one thing we did right Was the day we started to fight, Keep your eye on the prize, Hold on, hold on!

-Anonymous
Civil rights song, quoted in  Juan Williams Eye on the Prize (1987).

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

-Arnold, Matthew
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.43^5.

Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever Virgil seems to have composed 'with his eye on the object', Dryden fails to render him. Homer invariably composes 'with his eye onthe object', whether the object be moral or a material one: Pope composes with his eye on his style, into which he translates his object, whatever it is.

-Arnold, Matthew
On Translating Homer, lecture1.

She hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When dismal grew his countenance And drumlie grew his e'e. They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, Until she espied his cloven foot, And she wept right bitterlie.

-Ballads
'The Demon Lover'.

TrueThomas lay on Huntlie bank, A ferlie he spied wi' his e'e, And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the EildonTree.

-Ballads
'Thomas the Rhymer', opening lines.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

-Bankhead,Tallulah
  Attending a revival of Maeterlinck's play  Aglavaine and Selysette. Quoted in  Alexander  Woollcott Shouts and Murmurs (1923), ch.4.

Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of Americanmanmorethantheautomobile, or seemsso important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.

-Barr, Alfred Hamilton,Jr
  In news summaries, 31 Dec. / 2

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 21:23^4.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 32:10.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 42:5^6.

  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 32:8^9.

Hethat plantedthe ear, shall henot hear? hethat formed the eye, shall he not see?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 94:9.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion,Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the L shall bring again Zion.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 52:7^8.

For thus saith the L of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDZechariah 2:8.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast intohell. And ifthy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:29^30.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you,That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:38^9.

   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.

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew18:9.

And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew19:24.