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time heals all things en · X
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Synonym of time heals all wounds.
But time heals all things. Marius’s wrath abated, righteous though he held it to have been. He forgave her in the end; but it cost him an effort and he nursed his grievance for three whole days.
1976 [1862], Victor Hugo, “Part Three: Marius; chapter VI”, in Norman Denny, transl., Les Misérables, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 616:Time heals all things. Calm endurance took the place of uncontrollable anguish. One hope was left to the pair.
1888, Rudolf Baumbach, “The Ass’s Spring”, in Helen B. Dole, transl., Summer Legends, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., →OCLC, page 138:They sye that time ‘eals all things,
They sye you can always forget;
1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 130:
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time heals all wounds