Quotation Explorer - 'Profaned'

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things. - Henry David Thoreau
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