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Edward Eggleston Quotes

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

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

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

Edward Eggleston
Lasting, Storyteller

Journalism is organized gossip.

Edward Eggleston
Funny, Gossip, Journalism

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

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.

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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