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

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

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams

He had to pause for his usual misgivings.

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

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

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

John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

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

Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.

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

No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. 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.

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

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

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.

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

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

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