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TIME works wonders
1588Exhortation to defend Country
F2
You .. thinke that time will worke wonders, though you your selves follow your owne pleasures.
1815
Letter
7 Jan. (1975) IV. 252
Time does wonders.
1845
(
title
)
Time works wonders.
1872
Satanella
II. xxiv.
‘I want you to like me.’ .. ‘They say time works wonders .. and I feel I shall.’
1982
Rebel Angels
4
But there was time, and I was to be in his outer room, constantly under his eye. Time works wonders.
timetime
see also
there is always a FIRST time
;
NEVER is a long time
;
OTHER times, other manners
;
PARSLEY seed goes nine times to the Devil
;
PROCRASTINATION is the thief of time
;
one STEP at a time
;
a STITCH in time saves nine
;
THIRD time lucky
;
the THIRD time pays for all
;
WORK expands so as to fill the time available
.
there is always a FIRST time
;
NEVER is a long time
;
OTHER times, other manners
;
PARSLEY seed goes nine times to the Devil
;
PROCRASTINATION is the thief of time
;
one STEP at a time
;
a STITCH in time saves nine
;
THIRD time lucky
;
the THIRD time pays for all
;
WORK expands so as to fill the time available
.
TIMES change and we with time
Cf. L.
omnia
(also
tempora) mutantur nos et mutamur in illis
, all things (
also
times) are changing and we with them [attributed to Lothar I, Holy Roman Emperor 840–55].
1578
Euphues
I. 276
The tymes are chaunged as Ouid sayeth, and wee are chaunged in the times.
1666
Italian Proverbs
281
Times change, and we with them … The Latin says the same,
Tempora mutantur
,
et nos mutamur in illis
.
1943
Diary
21 Feb. (1979) 168
In English cities the Red Flag has been flown … Times change indeed, and we with time.
1981
Brock
31
Times were chaging and Melford with them.
circumstances
;
innovation
omnia
(also
tempora) mutantur nos et mutamur in illis
, all things (
also
times) are changing and we with them [attributed to Lothar I, Holy Roman Emperor 840–55].
1578Euphues
I. 276
The tymes are chaunged as Ouid sayeth, and wee are chaunged in the times.
1666
Italian Proverbs
281
Times change, and we with them … The Latin says the same,
Tempora mutantur
,
et nos mutamur in illis
.
1943
Diary
21 Feb. (1979) 168
In English cities the Red Flag has been flown … Times change indeed, and we with time.
1981
Brock
31
Times were chaging and Melford with them.
circumstances;
innovation
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