Article December 12, 1970 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Gertrude M. Puelicher

An item in A Thought for Your Birthday The State Mutual Life Assurance
Company of America

Youth is not a time of life— it is a state of mind; it is ... a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals.... Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair—these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

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