If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if 30 I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art there; if I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me. Bible.
If I be dear to some one else, / Then I should be to myself more dear. Tennyson.
If I call bad bad, what do I gain? But if I call good bad, I do a great deal of mischief. Goethe.
If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.
If I choose to take jest in earnest, no one shall put me to shame for doing so; and if I choose to carry on (treiben) earnest in jest, I shall be always myself (immer derselbe bleiben). Goethe.
If I do lose thee (life), I do lose a thing / That 35 none but fools would keep; a breath thou art, / Servile to all the skyey influences, / That do this habitation, where thou keep'st / Hourly inflict. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.
If I for my opinion bleed, / Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt. 1 Hen. VI., ii. 4.
If I had read as much as other men, I would have been as ignorant as they are. Hobbes.
If I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have said enough to serve mine own turn. Mid. Night's Dream, iii. 1.
If I knew the way of the Lord, truly I would be only too glad to walk in it; if I were led into the temple of truth (in der Wahrheit Haus), I would not, with the help of God (bei Gott), go out of it again. Goethe.