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count the cost

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count the cost
to start to understand how badly something has affected you. I didn't read the contract fully before I signed it but I'm counting the cost now.
See also: cost, count

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Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.
This grieved me heartily; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
 
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