Quote#Politics & Power
There are some secret springs in the affections which, when they are…
Quote byDaniel Defoe · 1660–1731
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship..
English (original)
There are some secret springs in the affections which, when they are set a-going by some object in view, or, though not in view, yet rendered present to the mind by the power of imagination, that motion carries out the soul, by its impetuosity, to such violent, eager embracings of the object, that the absence of it is insupportable.
— Daniel Defoe
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