Tuesday, June 4, 2013

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams in his diary, near the end of his career.
"My life has been spent in vain and idle aspirations, and in ceaseless rejected prayers that something beneficial to my own species should be the result of my existence."
(Lewis B. Smedes, A Pretty Good Person, p. 68)
4 June 2013

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