The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.


The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies (ed. 1883)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.