我们在学习英语的过程中，相信大家都学习过很多的经典的文章。对于这些文章，我们是可以总结下来然后背诵下来，对于日后的学习都是很有帮助的。可能有很多的学生学过这些文章之后忘记了总结，不知道有那些文章了。所以，沪江小编为大家总结了下面的这篇文章，相信大家看完之后会很有收益。

Youth

Youth is not a time of life; itis a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips andsupple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of theimagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of thedeep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamentalpredominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite foradventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number ofyears. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, butto give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrustbows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is inevery human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailingappetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In thecenter of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; solong as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and powerfrom man and from the infinite, so long as you areyoung.

When your aerials are down, andyour spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice ofpessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as youraerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you maydie young at 80.

上面的这篇文章就是一篇比较经典的文章，希望大家能够在认真看完的同时能够自己把这篇文章仔细的学习一遍，这样才算学好了。