{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables/life-is-made",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables/life-is-made.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables/life-is-made.md",
  "id": "6adaa4f2-3d05-4c52-9b11-2c960e8cdf1d",
  "slug": "life-is-made",
  "text": "Life is made up of marble and mud.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "Nathaniel Hawthorne",
    "slug": "nathaniel-hawthorne",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "The House of the Seven Gables",
    "slug": "the-house-of-the-seven-gables",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": null,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "life",
      "slug": "life",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne#The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_(1851)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:08",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "f7f00ca4-e770-4cc8-90c5-f4b39c2bcc10",
      "slug": "of-all-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables/of-all-the",
      "text": "Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one — none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance — to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne#The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_(1851)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "f596e386-2015-4e42-9465-3d0881d7a232",
      "slug": "the-world-owes",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables/the-world-owes",
      "text": "The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "happiness",
          "slug": "happiness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness"
        },
        {
          "name": "change",
          "slug": "change",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne#The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_(1851)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "89d849fb-548c-426b-b83e-eb7df22db465",
      "slug": "what-other-dungeon",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables/what-other-dungeon",
      "text": "What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "guilt",
          "slug": "guilt",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt"
        },
        {
          "name": "conscience",
          "slug": "conscience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conscience"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne#The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_(1851)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:08"
    }
  ]
}