“Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's victory won,
Now cometh rest.”
Edward Hazen Parker (1823–1896) American writer
Funeral Ode on James A. Garfield, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“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.
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