EDISON ON SELF-HELP.
> AYriting to rin American paper on '"Self-Help," Mr. Thos. Edison, tho famous inventor, said:-"I am a disciple of the principle of self-help and behove in tho old adago that 'God helps him who helps himself.' It is the only help which leads to valuable accomplishment. It is not what you are told so much as what you have found out youi-clf that forms'vour si ore of knowledge. The things 'I have been told I miiy believe, but those 1 have found out myself I know. A man must indeed be in a lamentable condition whose fund of knowledge is based solely upon informal ion obtained from others. I do not sec how such a man could ever bo assured of himself. Keeping eternally at a subject with everv faculty you possess concentrated on Iho matter in hand will place vou where no help from outside sources is needed. A cullivnliou of the habit of self-help leads to self-assurance, without which no ono can succeed or can hope for success."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 4
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172EDISON ON SELF-HELP. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 4
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