If solid happiness we prize, / Within our breast this jewel lies, / And they are fools who roam. / The world has nothing to bestow; / From our own selves our joys must flow, / And that dear hut, our home. N. Cotton.
If sorrow falls, / Take comfort still in deeming there may be / A way to peace on earth by woes of ours. Sir Edwin Arnold.
If speculation tends to a terrific unity, in 5 which all things are absorbed, action tends directly backwards to diversity. Emerson.
If that God give, the deil daurna reave (bereave). Sc. Pr.
If that thy fame with every toy be posed, / 'Tis a thin web which poisonous fancies make; / But the great soldier's honour was composed / Of thicker stuff, which would endure a shake. George Herbert.
If the Almighty waited six thousand years for a man to see what He has made, I may well wait two hundred for others to see what I have seen. Kepler. See Isa. xxviii. 16 (last clause).
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we moderns are building houses for them. A. B. Alcott.
If the beard were all, the goat might preach. 10 Dan. Pr.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Heb. Pr.
If the cap fit, wear it. Pr.