concern oneself with

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V. pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business &c. n.; undertake &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

It would be an encroachment upon his privileges to concern oneself with them.

From Mentally Defective Children by Binet, Alfred

Until one has fulfilled the first, it is futile to concern oneself with the second.

From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man by Johnston, Charles

I'll tell you something, Loth … Pshaw, why concern oneself with it at all.

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Hauptmann, Gerhart

The virtues are a tendency to mysticism, a need to concern oneself with the unseen; the vices, a non-immunity to fanaticism and bigotry.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth