"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

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"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

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"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."

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