Paragraph 2: "When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed."
What Hume is saying here is that we can look back at our memories and remember them so vividly, but the physical colors of everything in it will never be the same as when the original actions took place. He seems to be talking about long-term memory in this section of "Of Origins of Ideas". Having a long-term memory is having the ability to remember something forever, but one characteristic of a long-term memory is that we can remember everything that happened so clearly, but the colors and every little detail will never be so vivid ever again, no matter how hard we try to remember them.
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I agree with you on this. It's kind of like when someone dies you only remember a few things about them and you start to forget other things.
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