Edward Eggleston Quotes

• Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

  Edward Eggleston

  Change, Success, Running

  Edward Eggleston (1874). “The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age”, p.128

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• The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

  Edward Eggleston

  Lasting, Storyteller

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• Journalism is organized gossip.

  Edward Eggleston

  Funny, Gossip, Journalism

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• Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

  Edward Eggleston

  Class, Interesting, Funeral

  Edward Eggleston (1872). “The End of the World: A Love Story”, p.59

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• Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

  Edward Eggleston

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.

  Edward Eggleston

  Healing, Roots, Mind

  Edward Eggleston (1891). “The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York”, Ridgewood, N.J : Gregg Press

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