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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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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful than this marble sleep;
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Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
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The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always read more

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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

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