Careful Words

consider (v.)

  In everything one must consider the end.

J De La Fontaine (1621-1695): The Fox and the Gnat. Fable 5.

  Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

New Testament: Matthew vi. 28.

  Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Sir John Powell (1633-1696): Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Lord Raymond, 911.

'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.