deny oneself
Example Sentences
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“My Happy Ending” may at times feel modest, but the lessons imparted are far from disposable, including the idea that life is too short to deny oneself treats or wear uncomfortable shoes.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2023
To recognise what is harmful as harmful, to be able to deny oneself what is harmful, is a sign of youth, of vitality.
From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
And my experience of life has taught me that to deny oneself a single pleasure for the sake of some foolish scruple is wasteful; it only brings regret, and profits one nothing.
From The Bigamist by Young, F.E. Mills
One may deny oneself, but not a living thing is necessarily the better for it—generally many are the worse.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona
Just so;—I only allude to the pleasure one would have, but which one has to deny oneself.
From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony
