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)

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

One should repair of one's own accord unto those foremost of Brahmanas that do not solicit anybody and make unto them gifts of diverse kinds of wealth in abundance.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

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

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