I Quotes
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“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”
“If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.”
“If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.”
“If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
“If thou canst believe, all things are possible.”
Source: The Power of Words
“If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?”
“If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.”
Source: Meditations
“If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.”
“If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.”
“If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens
“If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.”
“If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.”
“If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.”
“If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.”
“If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.”
“If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.”
Source: The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings
“If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_
“If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.”
“If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.”
Source: Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
“If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.”
“If thou followeth a wall far enough, there must be a door in it.”
“If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.”
“If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said Yavanna, "and each contributes to the worth of the others. But the kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. And among these I hold trees dear. Long in the growing, swift shall they be in the felling, and unless they pay toll with fruit upon their bough little mourned in their passing. So I see in my thought, would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them!”
Source: The Silmarillion
“If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.”
“If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.”
“If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.”
“If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.”
“If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.”
“If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart
That ever cracks for woe. {...}”
Source: Pericles
“If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.”
“If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.”
“If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.”
“If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
'I love her for her smile—her look—her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'—
For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may
Be changed, or change for thee—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry:
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
If Thou Must Love Me”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.”
“If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor thy love to God is nourished.”
“If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
“If thou really believe in one God,
irrationality is subset of thou logic.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd”