“Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,
And age, like distance, lends a double charm.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.
“It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.”
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 13 “Lieutenant and Clown”
Context: It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.
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