ten thousand years, a thousand autumns

read Sartor Resartus by thomas carlyle if you get a chance- or just read the "natural supernaturalism" section- it's the last one. it is FULL of small passages that you will marvel over:

"innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous."