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"Finge datos currus, quid agas?" [Suppose the chariot of the sun were given you, what would you do?] (Apollo's question to Phaeton.) -Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book II.
"It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?" -Henry David Thoreau
"If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold." -John Milton, Paradise Lost