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Robert Herrick

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Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
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"Seek and Find". Compare: "Nil tam difficilest quin qu?rendo investigari possiet" (transalted as "Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking"), Terence, Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.

 
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