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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Mary's self-suggested love for Darnley was extinguished almost on her wedding-night. ❋ Lyndon Orr (N/A)

They deceive themselves with their self-suggested wisdom and holiness. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Robert Falcon Scott (1890)

Even such personification of natural forces, simple enough to be self-suggested, quickly disappeared. ❋ 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. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

They seem to have been self-suggested, and to have glided tacitly and insensibly into the current of his thoughts. ❋ Cary, Henry F (1846)

Long, however, before mesmerism was heard of, medical history attests examples in which patients who baffled the skill of the ablest physicians have fixed their fancies on some remedy that physicians would call inoperative for good or for harm, and have recovered by the remedies thus singularly self-suggested. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

"Faber," said I, abruptly, "can it be that Lilian is the patient in whose self-suggested remedies you confide more than in the various learning at command of your practised skill?" ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

"The repetition would be useless," said Raymond, "since I well remember them, and have many others, self-suggested, which speak with unanswerable persuasion." ❋ Unknown (1826)

“since I well remember them, and have many others, self-suggested, which speak with unanswerable persuasion.” ❋ Unknown (2003)