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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance and Other Essays · October 13, 1993 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Emerson • Waldo Emerson

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To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound!

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