Beautiful, Simply Beautiful

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read of heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learned that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South