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, time is the healer of all necessary evils.

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1385
Troilus & Criseyde
v. 350
As tyme hem [them] hurt, a tyme doth hem cure.
1591
tr.
Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
VI
. ii.
He hurt the wound which time perhaps had healed, weening [thinking] with greater sinne the lesse to mend.
1622
Complete Gentleman
iv.
Time, the Phisition of all.
1837
Henrietta Temple
III.
VI
. ix.
Time is the great physician.
1926
Translations & Tomfooleries
60
Time is the great healer.
1942
Body in Library
viii.
He had a terrible shock and loss … But Time, as my dear mother used to say, is a great healer.
1987
Little Death Music
xv.
Tony was a young Turk in his day. Broke with his father for a while. But it was his father, after all. And time heals all wounds.