Ambition to be Avoided

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“I see that candle,” says Warwick, “makes small show in the day which at night yields a glorious lustre, not because the candle has then more light, but because the air hath the more darkness. How prejudicial then is that ambition which makes me seem less than I am, by presuming to make me greater than I should be! They whose glory shines as the sparks amongst stubble, lose their light if compared to the Sun of glory. I will not seat myself higher than my place, lest I should be disgraced to a humility; but if I place myself lower than my seat, I may be advanced to the honor of ‘Friend, sit up higher.’ I had rather be exalted by my humility, than be brought low by my exaltation.”

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