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Thus would I double my life's fading space;
For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

— Abraham Cowley Works (1668)

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Notes from Wikiquote

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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