“Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”

—  Robert Herrick , book Hesperides

"Seek and Find". Compare: "Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet" (transalted as "Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking"), Terence, Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.
Hesperides (1648)

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