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" There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. "
Miriam Sedley; or, The tares and the wheat - Page 115
by baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1851
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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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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...ever strove to make it true. 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. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres...
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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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The Journal of sacred literature, ed. by J. Kitto. [Continued as ..., Volume 9

John Kitto - Bible - 1866 - 524 pages
...reminds us of Tennyson's :— " 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. " He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres...
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 6

430 pages
...STERLING. IN TWO PARTS— PART II. 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. TENNYSON'S "In Mcmorlam" JOHN Sterling, for causes which Archdeacon Hare does not clearly state, but...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1876 - 706 pages
...seems to me that one is somewhat helped to the understanding of Tennyson's celebrated paradox — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," — by the following passage from Theodore Parker, quoted in the Athenceum notice of him, September...
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In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...ever strove to make it true : Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. f There lives more faith in honest doubt, '** / Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres...
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