...high office and honors. How vain! When Cardinal Wolsley fell from high office, he said to his protege, "Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, . . . hope to win by it? ... 0 Cromwell, Cromwell! Had I but served my God with half the zeal? 1 served...

...utterance. It has been running through my mind ever since: - '"Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:...can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by't? Love thyself last: Cherish those hearts that hate thee: Corruption wins not more than honesty....

...know not what we may be. [Hamlet IVv41] Forget single figures Fling away ambition: By that sinjell the angels. How can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? [Henry VIII III ii 439] It's no big deal Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. [Troilus...

...one correspondent who tempered his remarks with this admonition in 1900: "Remember Wolsey's advice. 'Cromwell, I charge thee fling away ambition; by that sin fell the angels.'" 8 Political decorum required that candidates not blatantly interfere in the delegate selection process....

...Woolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, and sounded all the depths and shoals of honor — found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in ; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed h. Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me. "Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that...

...me more. [Wotsey— 3,2,274-79] Farewell? A long farewell to all my greatness! [Wolsey— 3.2.420] Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition! By that sin fell the angels. . . . [Wolsey— 3.2.520-21] Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, He would...