#never

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#divinity #erased #hand #human #human nature

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#athens #ceased #free #freedom #freedom from

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#i #imperfect #man #never #never expect

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#how #like #lot #magic #magician

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#believe #believe in yourself #else #hobby #i

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#beginning #book #end #hundreds #i

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#actually #anything #book #dreaming #fun

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#finished #generation #nation #never #re-created

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#fully #gone #happen #i #know

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else. ↗

— Amy Grant

#congregation #else #everybody #everybody else #feel