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 or 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 learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a
necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had
fallen.
--Elizabeth Gaskell
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