 | 1869 - 434 pages
...— " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At lasl he beat his music our.. There lives mure faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts, and gathi r'd strength ; He would not make his judgment blind; He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid... | |
 | 1869 - 974 pages
...true : " Perplcxt in faith, but pare in deed*, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faitb in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. " He fought his doubts and ¡rather' d strength, Be would not make his judgmetit blind; He faced the spectres of the mind, And... | |
 | 1869 - 642 pages
...(see canto 84). He says : — 1 Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last ho beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. lie fought his doubts, and çathcr'd strength, Пе would not make his judgment blind, By which I understand... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...ever strove to make it true : Perplex'd 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. CHAPTER XXVI. POETS OF THE PRESENT CENTURY. LORD BYRON. R. DISRAELI, in a speech made some time since... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 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 jndgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid... | |
 | 1880 - 996 pages
...have a natural sympathy with doubters. We appreciate the force of Tennyson's most suggestive couplet : "There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds — " but the doubt must be honest. We have great respect for a doubt that makes a man better, but... | |
 | 1899 - 1078 pages
...disbelieving whatever he told them, and ready passively to accept any interpretation at second hand ? For There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. () for more thinking Christians, however independent, in our churches ! Why will men be satisfied with... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1870 - 432 pages
...even in material things, can in things immaterial decide absolutely upon what is two and what is four. "There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half your creeds." And it is just possible that when the devil tempted our forefather to eat of the tree... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 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 of the mind And laid... | |
 | 1871 - 846 pages
...But ever strove to make it true. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his musio 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 of the mind And laid... | |
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 
