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This reads as a warning about divided attention, saying that you cannot fully hold onto one season while still longing for another. It can be taken to mean that enjoyment has its own timing, and that wanting the next thing too soon makes the present harder to receive. It lands when someone is impatient for change and missing what is already here.
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About Samuel Johnson
English writer and polymath
Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath. He is best known for his Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, a work of 42,733 entries that shaped the study and use of English. Beyond the dictionary, Johnson wrote as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermon writer, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. His reputation rests on the breadth of that work and on his lasting influence on the English language.
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