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" Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. — • There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. "
The Fruit of the Spirit and Other Sermons from a Greylock Pulpit - Page 138
by Alford Brown Penniman - 1898
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...maintaining that "the Suppression of Doubt is not Faith," and that according to our modern poet — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. " The author of this pamphlet was supposed to be Professor Goldwin Smith. The Bishop preached a sermon...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 69

1864 - 998 pages
...absolute impartiality ! English scepticism in our time is mostly of that sort of which it may be said — There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. It is honest, serious, and arises in most cases from the sincere interest taken in the subject. Along...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 64

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1868 - 648 pages
...the vast problems of human nature cannot be dismissed with a stereotyped " I believe." He sings — There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds ; and so there does, the simple fact being that there is no ground whatever for faith in a creed. With...
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...but where the sciolist is apt to be confident, we may Bay for our friend in comparison with him, " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." When there is so much willfulness in men's opinions, and so much dogmatism in the world, it may be...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 109

American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...and wisdom. The ideal friend ' " touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his j udgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...reverence, and wisdom. The ideal friend " touched a jarring lyre at first, But' ever strove to make it true. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 36

American periodicals - 1853 - 672 pages
...subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true. Porplext in faith, but pure in deeds, .At last he beat his...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. f A thoughtful writer has said, that while there is a temper of mind inventive of doubts, the cleverness...
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The Living Age, Volume 213

1897 - 986 pages
...time troubled and perplexed him. But it may be truly said of him as he said of his dead friend:— He fought his doubts, and gathered strength, He would not make his reason blind, He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid them; thus, he came at length To find a firmer...
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The Journal of sacred literature, ed. by J. Kitto. [Continued as ..., Volume 9

John Kitto - Bible - 1866 - 524 pages
...believe, and acting as if they did." Then follows a passage which strongly reminds us of Tennyson's :— " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...than in half the creeds. " He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid...
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 28

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1893 - 482 pages
...patriotic; again it is of love or of nature. It is always pure, generally hopeful and believing. " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," writes Tennyson; and his sympathies are chiefly reserved for those doubts which are full of faith....
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