time heals all hurts

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time heals all hurts

  1. Synonym of time heals all wounds
    • 1883 February 1, The Australian Woman's Magazine and Domestic Journal, volume 1, number 2, page 332:
      However, it is a true saying that time heals all hurts, and so it was with Jack Grosvenor, for it came to pass that when the first soreness was over Fred induced Jack to pay them another visit before he took his bride back to the bush,  []
    • 1930, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Fighting Man of Mars, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, Inc., published 1931, page 211:
      She pressed my arm. “Time heals all hurts,” she said, “and some day you will find a woman worthy of you, if such a one exists.”
    • 1995 September 26, Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 18-50, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 89:
      She also assures Jacob that time heals all hurts. The day will come when Esau's seething will dissipate, and the scenario with Jacob and Esau will become only part of Esau's distant past.