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Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams

CHAPTER XV
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We cannot find it in our hearts to regret, that he has died as he has died.

He himself could have desired no other end.

'This is the end of earth,' were his last words, uttered on the day on which he fell.

But we might also hear him exclaiming, as he left us--in a language hardly less familiar to him than his native tongue--'Hoc est, nimirum, magis feliciter de vita migrare, quam mori.' "It is for others to suggest what honors shall be paid to his memory.

No acts of ours are necessary to his fame.


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