Paul C. Nagel Quotes & Sayings

#1. The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

#2. John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject.

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#3. Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams

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#4. John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

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#5. I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams

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#6. When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

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#7. The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.

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#8. My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams

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#9. John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

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#10. The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

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#11. The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

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#12. Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.

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#13. Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

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#14. Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

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#15. Adams met with a convention on keeping the Sabbath and found the atmosphere surprisingly similar to that in Congress. Legalistic disputes so abounded that he found it difficult to keep order.

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#16. John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.

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#17. The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

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#18. No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams

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#19. The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.

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#20. The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.

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#21. Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

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#22. Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

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#23. I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

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#24. Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

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#25. It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

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#26. Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

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#27. The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he might one day have to read it. He hopes, though, that the flaws in his earlier entries will be balanced by the progress he is able to see.

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