Davies Gilbert Quotes

• If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.

  Davies Gilbert

  Weed, Garden, Long

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• The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and in his discoveries,-a vivid imagination sketching out new tracts in regions unexplored, for the judgement to select those leading to the recesses of abstract truth.

  Davies Gilbert

  Character, Science, Discovery

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