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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. (Bruce Barton)

I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. (Lyman Frank Baum)

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. (Allan Bloom)

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. (Pearl S. Buck)

A prudent consideration for Number One. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

Each of us finds our own balance between consideration and production. (William M. Dupree)

Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. (Jimmy Durante)

-b.AD 23 d.AD 79, Gaius Plinius Secundus...
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration. (Pliny the Elder)

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Self-respect knows no considerations. (Mahatma Gandhi)

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own. (Eric Hoffer)

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole... so that he may then execute it with warmth and as if the entire thing were done at the same time. (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor. It covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. (Thomas Jefferson)

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration. (Samuel Johnson)

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. (Frida Kahlo)

There is but one genuine love-potion – consideration. (Menander)

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. (Eleanor Holmes Norton)

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. (Thomas Paine)

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others. (David Seabury)

Consideration, like an angel, came / And whipped the offending Adam out of him. (William Shakespeare)

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones. (Fujiwara no Teika)

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. (Dr. Paul Tournier)

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses. (Virgil)

We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly – that is the first law of nature. (Voltaire)


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