Youth..(by Samuel Ulman)

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity
of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease
This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty
Nobody grows old merely by a number of years
We grow old by deserting our ideals
When the aerials are down
your spirit is covered with snows of cinicism and the ice of pessimism
you're gown old even at twenty
but as long as your aerials are up
to catch the waves of optimism
there is hope you may die yound at eighty


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