Edward Eggleston quotes

“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”
-- Edward Eggleston

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

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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

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

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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

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

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“Journalism is organized gossip.”
-- Edward Eggleston

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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

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

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“The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.”
-- Edward Eggleston

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“It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.”

“We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.”

“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.”

“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.”

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Prayer begins where our power ends.”