Seventh Year

Famous quotes containing the words seventh year, seventh and/or year:

“Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 15:1.

“Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 15:1.

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp’s acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)