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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 American Scholar in Professional Life - Page 11
by George Gluyas Mercer - 1889
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The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and ..., Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1855 - 482 pages
...conclusions, dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds : He fought bis doubts and gathered strength ; lie would not make his judgment blind : He faced the spectres of...
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The Christian Life, Social and Individual

Peter Bayne - 1855 - 540 pages
...earnest doubt which we meet with. Our time here demands a faithful valor beyond that of chivalry. " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." There may, in our quiet domestic life, arise temptations to mental cowardice as severe as ever prompted...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 59

1855 - 502 pages
...earnest doubt which we meet with. Our time here demands a faithful valor beyond that of chivalry. ' There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.' " There may, in our quiet domestic life, arise temptations to mental cowardice as severe as ever prompted...
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The Haileybury observer, Volume 8

East India college - 1856 - 480 pages
...subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. poetry in general. To particular poems, more especially his "In Memoriam," there have been raised up...
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The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and ..., Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1858 - 424 pages
...conclusions, dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds! He fonght his doubts and gathered strength ; He would not make his jndgment blind; He faced the spectors...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 27

1859 - 534 pages
...to a consistent faith 'sooner than creeds or formulas. And this he knew who wrote of his friend : " Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he...honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds." The New Priest in Conception Bay. Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Co. This novel has at least one recommendation,...
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In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pages
...lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplcxt in faith, but pure in deeds, jI" At last ho beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the ereeds. j He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgement blind, He faced...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 17

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1859 - 1136 pages
...received by tradition ; and we can accept, in their true significance, the words of the poet-laureate : " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." Similar is the same poet's description of the acquisition of true faith : " He fought his doubts and...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1860 - 890 pages
..."Then we will doubt everything." And Mr. Tennyson, as the minstrel of this whole sect, exclaims, — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." But those who adopt this view should not blind themselves to the fact, that, to all practical purposes,...
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The Great Harmonia: The thinker

Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 pages
...inspiration from the Niagara acclivities of his spiritual organization. He could not say, with Tennyson — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." He was not enough critical and reasonable (or philosophical) to engender and fearlessly to entertain a...
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