| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 29499 |
| QUOTATION: | Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, which at the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish philosopher. “A Dissertation on the Passions,” sect. 6, p. 164, Green and Grose (1898). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Hume Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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