Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
But I so run, not as uncertainty; I fight, not as One beating the air; but I make my body livid, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, when preaching to others, I may myself be rendered a castaway."
