time heals all wounds

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Etymology

Traditional sentiment, in the form “time is the healer of all necessary evils” used by Greek dramatist Menander (c. 342–290 BCE).

Proverb

time heals all wounds

  1. Negative feelings eventually fade away.
    Synonym: time is a great healer
    • 1910, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter II, in Morning Star:
      “We quarrelled long ago, did we not, and many years have passed since we met, but Time heals all wounds and—welcome, son of my father. I need not ask if you are well,” and he glanced enviously at the great-framed man who knelt before him.

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  1. ^ Jennifer Speake, editor (2015), “time is a great healer”, in Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, 6th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 319.

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