"We may have an excellent Ear in Musick, without being able to perform in any kind. We may judg well of Poetry, without being Poets, or possessing the least of a Poetick Vein: But we can have no tolerable Notion of Goodness, without being tolerably good."

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Vol. 1, p. 26; "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm".

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