Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
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“It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.”
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