All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an … - Roger L'Estrange

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Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

Roger L'Estrange

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Matter, Restriction, Force, Obligation, Inferior, Conscience

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Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

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What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

Doe, Make, Men, Senses, Want, Wherewithal

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

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Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

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Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Course, God, Live, Men, Promise, Vow

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