cherish (v.)
- admire
- adore
- appreciate
- apprize
- baby-sit
- bear
- bosom
- chaperon
- clip
- coddle
- conserve
- cosset
- cradle
- cultivate
- defend
- dry-nurse
- embrace
- entertain
- esteem
- feed
- fondle
- foster
- guard
- harbor
- have
- hold
- hug
- idolize
- keep
- mind
- mother
- nourish
- nurse
- nurture
- pamper
- preserve
- prize
- regard
- relish
- retain
- revere
- reverence
- safeguard
- save
- shelter
- shepherd
- shield
- suckle
- support
- sustain
- tend
- treasure
- value
- venerate
- watch
- wet-nurse
- worship
To love, cherish, and to obey.
Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love and joy and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish
And in itself to ashes burn.
Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell,
Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
