Humility is only true magnanimity

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Hugh Binning (Treatise of Christian Love), Works, p. 545:

Humility is only true magnanimity, for it digs down low, that it may set and establish the foundation of true worth. It is true, it is lowly, and bows down low. But as the water that comes from a height, the lower it comes down the higher it ascends up again; so the humble spirit, the lower it fall in its own estimation, the higher it is raised in real worth and in God’s estimation. “He that humbles himself shall be exalted, and he that exalts himself shall be abased,” Matt. 23:12. He is like a growing tree, the deeper the roots go down in the earth, the higher the tree grows above ground; as Jacob’s ladder, the foot of it is fastened in the earth, but the top of it reaches the heaven. And this is the sure way to ascend to heaven. Pride would fly up upon its own wings. But the humble man will enter at the lowest step, and so goes up by degrees, and in the end is made manifest. Pride catches a fall, and humility is raised on high; it descended that it might ascend. “A man’s pride shall bring him low, but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit,” Prov. 29:23. “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” But “before honour is humility,” Prov. 16:18, and 18:12.
 
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