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“Got more soul (sole) than a sock with a hole.”

MF Doom (1971) hip hop artist from America

As Madvillain, "Rhinestone Cowboy", Madvillainy (2004)
Sourced Lines

“Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.”

Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist

on the topic of public art, quoted at franceinlondon.com (September 2004).

“And it is a smaller thing to suffer the punishment than to have deserved it.”
Estque pati poenam quam meruisse minus.

Ovid book Epistulae ex Ponto

I, i, 62; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)

“There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Charles Avison.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye…”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

Book XXXIV, sec. 4
History of Rome

“There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind.”

Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer

TED Talk: Mind-Shifting Everest Swim, July 2010 http://www.ted.com/talks/lewis_pugh_s_mind_shifting_mt_everest_swim.html
Speaking & Features

“I'd rather lose at pinochle than win at solitaire.”

Henry Schriver (1914–2011) American politician

Cows, Kids, and Co-ops

“Your life is worth much more than gold.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)
Song lyrics

“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”

George Crabbe (1754–1832) English poet, surgeon, and clergyman

Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Tales in Verse (1812)

“3403. Men seek less to be instructed than applauded.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Hope deceives more men than cunning does.”

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist

L'espérance fait plus de dupes que l'habileté.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity”

Walter Dill Scott (1869–1955) President of Northwestern university and psychologist

Attributed to Walter Dill Scott in: ‎Sterling W. Sill Benson (1974). That ye might have life. p. 274

“Sacrifice your life rather than your word.”

Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general

Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”

William Hazlitt book The Round Table

"On Manner"
The Round Table (1815-1817)

“I think that common law is better than equity.”

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley (1828–1921) English judge

Angus v. Clifford (1891), L. J. Rep. (N. S.) 60 C. D. 455.

“There is nothing I want more than to return to Russia.”

Boris Berezovsky (1946–2013) Russian mathematician

Interview with Forbes (22 March 2013)

“Canada is a country that works better in practice than in theory.”

Stéphane Dion (1955) Canadian politician

As quoted in "One nation or many?" https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20170522044424/http://www.economist.com/node/8173164 (16 November 2006), The Economist

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