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Abraham Cowley

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Thus would I double my life's fading space;
For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Discourse xi, Of Myself, stanza xi; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For he lives twice who can at once employ / The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy", Alexander Pope, Imitation of Martial.

 
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