Public Speaking Pauses Blog

In the following selections dashes have been inserted where pauses maybe used effectively. Naturally, you may omit some of these and insert others without going wrong--one speaker would interpret a passage in one way, one in another; it is largely a matter of personal preference. A dozen great actors have played Hamlet well, and yet each has played the part differently. Which comes the nearest to perfection is a question of opinion. You will succeed best by daring to follow your own course--if you are individual enough to blaze an original trail.

A moment's halt-- a momentary taste of being from the well amid the waste-- and lo! the phantom caravan has reached-- the nothing it set out from--Oh make haste!

The worldly hope men set their hearts upon-- turns ashes-- or it prospers;-- and anon like snow upon the desert's dusty face-- lighting a little hour or two-- is gone.

The bird of time has but a little way to flutter,-- and the bird is on the wing.

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