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self-consideration

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  • We step right out with recognition of God in some things, then self-consideration enters our lives and down we go.

    ONE GREAT TRUTH JONATHAN FALWELL 2008

  • Shocked at self-consideration, F'lar hurriedly examined his mount's shoulder for telltale score marks.

    DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968

  • [63] If they be the latter, I ask, seeing all grace is of promise, whether hath God promised to give and continue this grace of self-consideration unto believers or no?

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Christ, I thought it necessary to add unto it this brief exhortation unto faith in him, aiming to suit it unto the capacity of the meanest sinner that is capable of any self-consideration as unto his eternal welfare.

    Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965

  • Such was his high sense of propriety, and so little his self-consideration.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

  • With the one it was self-abasement -- with the other self-consideration; but it came to the same thing in the end, and the men profited equally.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

  • A _perfect_ person is not to be found upon earth; when disposed to murmur at not meeting with the sacrifices you expect, ask yourself if you would be willing to make these sacrifices for another -- and then be not surprised that others are not more free from the dross of self-consideration than you are.

    A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church

  • In Michael Angelo, all self-consideration is absorbed in the sublimity of the sentiment which issues from the august presence that attracts Eve; 'her earthly,' in

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

  • Age, he reflected, was beginning to tell on him, and, since he was a person not given to self-consideration, it came to him with all the force of a major discovery that nearly thirty-five and nearly twenty-five are two very different kettles of fish where nervous stamina and the ability to do without sleep are concerned.

    Flowers for the Judge Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1934

  • Even now Artois did not understand himself, did not know whither his steps might have tended had not the brutality of the Marchesino roused him abruptly to this self-examination, this self-consideration.

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

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