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  • My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind.
    Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
    What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought?
    This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.

    Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.15