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Leave behind

verb

Depart and not take along.

Be survived by after one's death. Synonym: leave. "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats"

Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking. Synonyms: leave, leave alone. "Leave the young fawn alone" , "Leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"

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"Leave behind" Quotes from Famous Books

... by far the most dangerous, because it is the most plausible part of his speculations; so plausible that, even where his reasonings in support of it may fail to carry the full conviction of the understanding, they may yet leave behind them a certain impression unfavorable to faith in Divine things, since they appeal to many palpable facts in the history of Science, too well attested to be doubted, and too important to be overlooked. The theory itself—whatever may ...

— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan

... me now, that I knew it as the portal to so fair a scene. I had become interested in the land, in the people, and looked sorrowfully on the lake on which I must soon embark, to leave behind what I had ...

— Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 • S.M. Fuller

... These wondrous waterways have little part in that mystical holding power of the Never-Never. They are only pleasant places to ride through and leave behind; for their purring slumberous beauty is vaguely suggestive of the beauty of a sleeping tiger: a sleeping tiger with deadly fangs and talons hidden under a wonder of soft allurement; and when exiles in the towns sit and dream their dreams are all of stretches ...

— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn

... ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded in the first place that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of which I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and secondly (though I am not so sure of this last) to men departed, better than those whom I leave behind; and therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead, and as has been said of old, some far better thing for the good ...

— Phaedo - The Last Hours Of Socrates • Plato

... explains it: "As oft as ye eat this bread and drink of this cup ye show the death of Christ." [1 Cor. 11:26] And this is what an earthly testator does, who bequeaths something to his heirs, that he may leave behind him a good name, the good will of men and a blessed memory, that he be ...

— Works of Martin Luther - With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) • Martin Luther

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