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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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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of read more

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

by G. K. Chesterton 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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

by Herbert Asquith Found in: Age Quotes, Youth Quotes,
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

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Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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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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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

by John Dryden Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

by Lord Chesterfield Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Our youth we can have but to-day;
We may always find time to grow old.

Our youth we can have but to-day;
We may always find time to grow old.

by Anthony Berkeley Found in: Youth Quotes,
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