英语经典美文诵读100篇：004.youth

[00:04.07]004. Youth [00:14.48]Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; [00:24.60]it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, and a vigor of the emotions; [00:31.33]it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. [00:35.46]Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. [00:45.63]This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. [00:54.94]We grow old by deserting our ideals. [00:58.77]Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. [01:05.17]Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. [01:12.87]Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, [01:19.46]the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living. [01:26.09]In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: [01:31.89]so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, [01:41.47]so long are you young. [01:44.38]When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, [01:51.84]then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, [02:00.22]there is hope you may die young at 80.

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