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To what attribute is the following sentence from the essay "Society and Solitude" by Ralph Waldo Emerson associated with? "We sink as easily as we rise."

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"Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his own instincts and ideas.
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