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


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.

Abraham Cowley Quotes

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

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

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

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