No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens.(1839)

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

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In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Source: Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Chapter: 38.

Scrooge followed to the window: desperate in his curiosity. He looked out. The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost; some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free. Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.

Source: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843).