#happy man

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. ↗

— James Buchanan

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Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. ↗

— James Ellroy

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I am a happy man. I've had a good life. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man! ↗

— Ken Hensley

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