Death
Henry Phillpotts still held office as Bishop of Exeter on his death at the age of 91 on 18 September 1869 (The date at the top under his picture is incorrect) and is buried in the churchyard at St Marychurch, Torquay, near his wife, Deborah, née Surtees, who had died six years before him, and was mother by him of eighteen children.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay:
The worst is death, and death will have his day.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“if once the message greet him
That his True Love doth stay,
If Death should come and meet him,
Love will find out the way!”
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“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.”
—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)