Time assuages the greatest grief.
Meaning: Prolonged suffering diminishes naturally as days pass, healing wounds that seem unbearable in their immediacy.
Origin: Recorded in A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, an undated collection published in London by Whittaker & Co. around 1880 and credited to Thomas Preston. Its earlier history hasn't been traced.
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- Rome wasn't built in a day — Great things take time and patience.
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