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Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

Richard Baxter

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Richard Baxter
Age: 76 †
Born: 1615
Born: November 12
Died: 1691
Died: December 8
Philosopher
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Shropshire
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