Microscopes and microspecks

“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope” – Josh Billings

Sounds vaguely familiar to the saying by Jesus in the gospel of Matthew at Chapter 7:

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?