Quotes by Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life

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The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and her — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence. — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts. — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy. — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his pr — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
He must become an apprentice to ordinary life. — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
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 — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill. — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations. — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dut — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel no — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "ba — Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life