"I dread to come to the end of the year,said a friend to me recently, "it makes me realize I am growing old.”
“我惧怕临近岁末年尾”，一位朋友最近对我说：“它使我意识到我正在变老。”
William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are "old fogies at twenty-five",He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their "Principles, " and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.
The minutea man ceases to grow-no matter what his years-that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old.
一个人一旦停止成长--不管他年龄多大--他就开始衰老。反之，真正的伟人从来不会衰老。
Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, "What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense."
And there you have the real answer to the question, "When is a man old?"
“一个人何时变老？”，从这类事例中对这个问题你已经有了真正的答案。
Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.
拉普拉斯78岁逝世时依然年轻。他依旧不满足，依旧感到许多东西要学。
As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say , "I grew," he is still young.
一个人，只要他能够保持这种心态，只要他在回首过去的一年时能够说“我在成长”，他就依然年轻。
The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, "I know all that I need to know,"--that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.
Nice to know, we can not let our material desires inflation, but must not contain spirit pursuit, thanks for reminding, a blessing.作者: 小尾巴猪 时间: 2011-11-30 13:27
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