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John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.
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.
He had to pause for his usual misgivings.
The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".
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.
Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams
He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.
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.
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.
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.
My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams
It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams
Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.
Adams was in a hurry and ordered his horse drawn carriage to wait for him in front of his house. The horses were spooked before he got in the carriage, and the carriage was destroyed in an accident. Pondering what could have happened to him , Adams retreated to Psalm 20's injunctions against trusting in chariots and horses.
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.
Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.
Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.
