Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
Source: In Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, by Oxford University Press, 1979, 1985.
-- Alfred Victor Vigny, (Mar 27 1797-1863), French man of letters; He was an early exponent of French romanticism, e.g., Cliq-Mars, 1826; he also translated Othello into French verse.