abound in one's own sense

Compare French abonder dans le sens de quelqu'un.

• "But for that very reason that the conventional requires softness or impressionability to the dear little urbanities in you, if you abound in your own sense […] they are weak, & soon at your mercy."
• "The clearly defined purpose of the order, and the full and all but dryly legalistic expressions of its constitutions left no scope for interpreters abounding in their own sense and made schism impossible."
• "Having escaped what he described as the “Ph.D. death rattle,” Copey abounded in his own sense at Harvard, where “Every man in his humour” was the motto for professors who were actors often and characters all the time."