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Date: January 1739
"In that case resemblance converts the idea into an impression, not only by means of the relation, and by transfusing the original vivacity into the related idea; but also by presenting such materials as take fire from the least spark."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: January 1739
"The Duc de la Rochefoucault has very well observed, that absence destroys weak passions, but encreases strong; as the wind extinguishes a candle, but blows up a fire"
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
