of one's own accord
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To give to everyone who asks is not so pleasant as to give of one's own accord.
From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo)
Yet even the feelings which one experiences by contagion one can experience only of one's own accord, in one's own way, and according to one's disposition.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; Ð preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
It is no easy task to tumble off a pedestal of one's own accord, even when one has not put oneself there.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred
As if one was caught, trapped into the married state, pinned by the leg, instead of going into it of one's own accord and glorying in the act!'
From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles
