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    People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

by Gilbert K. Chesterton Found in: Youth Quotes,
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

by James Matthew Barrie Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your read more

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your heart.

by Raisa M. Gorbachev Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

by Ben Lindsey Found in: Youth Quotes,
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

by Robert Browning Found in: Youth Quotes,
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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

by Dame Mary Gilmore Found in: Youth Quotes,
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And both were young, and one was beautiful.

And both were young, and one was beautiful.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the
youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can
never be so in mind.

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