self-suggested

As with the trouble with gambling, I managed to spend beyond my self-suggested limit at the farm while [farming and] wanting to do little else.

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At this distance of time, I cannot be sure how far the above conjectures were self-suggested: or in what measure they owed their origin and confirmation to another quarter.

Villette 2003

Mary's self-suggested love for Darnley was extinguished almost on her wedding-night.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

Mary's self-suggested love for Darnley was extinguished almost on her wedding-night.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1 Lyndon Orr

They deceive themselves with their self-suggested wisdom and holiness.

A Commentary on St. Paul���s Epistle to the Galatians 1483-1546 1939

There may be truth in it, or they may be merely self-suggested vision due to an artificial exaltation of their minds.

Four Weird Tales Algernon Blackwood 1910

It is very doubtful if it could be genuinely attained unless it has been already experienced; and I do not believe in the wholesomeness of self-suggested emotions.

Escape, and Other Essays Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

Such a task completed, he is away to exercise his pony, and later out again with the dogs, the last typically self-suggested, because for the moment there is no one else to care for these animals.

Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

Even such personification of natural forces, simple enough to be self-suggested, quickly disappeared.

The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell 1885

Certain other ideas, new to him, coming self-suggested in their train, he began immediately to imagine himself a thinker, able to generate notions to which the people around him were unequal.

There & Back George MacDonald 1864