Time hath a taming hand.

The line expresses a common Newmannian theme: the slow, often providential work of time in moderating extremes—of grief, anger, controversy, or even intellectual certainty. “Taming” suggests not erasing feeling or conviction but bringing them under discipline, perspective, and patience. Read this way, the aphorism commends endurance and humility: what seems unbearable or intractable in the moment may, with time, become livable, intelligible, or less consuming. It also implies a moral psychology in which change is gradual; character and judgment are formed by long experience rather than sudden resolution.