# Quote — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

> Life is made up of marble and mud.

- Author: [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne.md)
- Book: [The House of the Seven Gables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables.md)
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> 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.

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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.

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> What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

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