RIDDLES

Riddle:

I have many tongues but cannot taste

By me, most thigs are turned to waste
I crack and snap, yet I stay whole
I may take the largest toll
I assisted all of the first men
And I will pay them back again
Around me, people snuggle and sleep
Yet run when I am released from my keep
I jump around and leap and bound
The cold man whishes I he had found

What am I?
Answer: Fire

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My
My
My
My
My
My

first is in wield, sever bones and marrow.

second is in blade, forged in cold steel.
third is in arbalest, and also in arrows.
fourth is in power, plunged through a shield.
fifth is in honour, and also in vows
last will put an end to it all.

What am I?
Answer: Weapon

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My
My
My
My

first is foremost legally,

second circles outwardly,
third leads all in victory,
fourth ends twice a nominee

My whole is this gates only key.

What am I?
Answer: Love

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I turn my head and you may go where you want.

I turn it again, you will stay till you rot.
I have no face, but I live or die
by my crooked teeth

Who am I?
Answer: A Key

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High from heav'n her eye looks down,

Constant strife excites her frown;
Winged beings shun her sight,
She puts the youth to instant flight.
The aged too her looks do scout;
Oh! oh! the fugitive cries out.
And by her snares whoe'er is lured
Can never of his sin been cured.

Who am I?
Answer: The Sun

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High from heav'n her eye looks down,

Constant strife excites her frown;
Winged beings shun her sight,
She puts the youth to instant flight.
The aged too her looks do scout;

Oh! oh! the fugitive cries out.

And by her snares whoe'er is lured
Can never of his sin been cured.

Who am I?
Answer: I don't know the answer so e-mail me if you know the answer

Suggestions Received: wind storm, hurricane, tornado, darkness or night, leaf, a

ncient (red) dragon, death, moon, sun, arrow, Medusa, lycanthropy

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A handless man had a letter to write,

And he who read it had lost his sight;
The dumb repeated it word for word,
And deaf was the man who listened and heard.

Who am I?
Answer: I don't know the answer so e-mail me if you know the answer

Suggestions Received: silence, troglidyte, imagination, desire, sun, nothing, th

e one least expected, death, love, tape recorder, faith, riddle, thought, apathy
, gossip, contradiction, lie, want, musical note, fight, malediction (curse), ev
il, human detemination, typewriter, cursed scroll, sign language, brail, dream,
human brain

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What kind of ear cannot hear?

What am I?
(Hint: No, the answer is not "Mike Tyson's latest snack".)
Answer: An ear of corn

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There is one that has a head without an eye,

And there's one that has an eye without a head.
You may find the answer if you try;
And when all is said,
Half the answer hangs by a thread.

What am I?
Answer: Pins and Needles

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Black I am and much admired,

Men seek me until they're tired;
When they find me, break my head,
And take me from my resting bed.

What am I?
Answer: Coal

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Who becomes pregnant without conceiving?

Who becomes fat without eating?

Answer: Clouds

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In the dark night flies a many-hued phantom.

It soars and spreads its wings
above the gloomy human crowd.
The whole world calls to it,
the whole world implores it.
At dawn the phantom vanishes
to be reborn in every heart.
And every night it is born anew
and every day it dies!

What am I?
Answer: Hope

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Two brothers we
By which we are
In truth we may
We are full all
But empty we go

are, great burden we bear

bitterly pressed.
say
the day
to our rest.

What am I?
Answer: Shoes (or boots)

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Of no use to one
Yet absolute bliss to two.
The small boy gets it for nothing.
The young man has to lie for it.
The old man has to buy it.
The baby's right,
The lover's privilege,
The hypocrite's mask.
To the young girl, faith;
To the married woman, hope;
To the old maid, charity.

What am I?
Answer: A Kiss

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A wee wee man

In a red red coat
Staff in my hand
And a stone in my throat.

What am I?
Answer: A Cherry

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What runs around a city

but never moves?

What am I?
Answer: A Wall

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What is full of holes and holds water?

What am I?
Answer: A Sponge

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Iron roof, glass walls

Burns and burns
And never falls.

What am I?
Answer: A Lantern

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I cut through evil

like a double edged sword,
And chaos flees at my approach.
Balance I single-handedly upraise,
Through battles fought with heart and mind,
Instead of with my gaze.

What am I?
Answer:Justice

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It holds most knowledge that has ever been said;

But is not the brain, is not the head.
To feathers and their masters, 'tis both bane and boon. . .
One empty, and one full.

What am I?
Answer:Paper

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It comes only before,

It comes only after,
Rises only in darkness,
But rises only in light.
It is always the same,
But is yet always different.

What am I?
Answer:The moon

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A golden treasure that never stays;

The coin whose face gives wealth to all.
Strands, nuggets, and dust of gold
are all bought with its shining grace. . .
And all are more precious than any gleaming metal.

What am I?
Answer:The sun

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I run through hills;

I veer around mountains.
I leap over rivers
and crawl through the forests.
Step out your door to find me.

What am I?
Answer:The road

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Inside me the adventurous find

Quests and treasures of every kind.
Trolls, goblins, orcs, and more, await
Within my closed walls for
All those that wish to visit me.
Your hands are the key
To secrets untold,
And your mind will unlock the door.

What am I?
Answer:A book

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Stronger than steel,

And older than time;
They are more patient than death
and shall stand even when the stars have ceased to shine.
Their strength is embedded
in roots buried deep
Where the sands and frosts of ages
can never hope to touch or reach.

What am I?
Answer:Mountains

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Creatures of power, creatures of grace,

Creatures of beauty, creatures of strength.
As for their lives,
they set everything's pace,
For all things must come to live
under their emerald embrace. . .
Either in their life, or in their death.

What am I?
Answer:Trees

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As beautiful as the setting sun,

As delicate as the morning dew;
An angel's dusting from the stars
that can turn the Earth into
A frosted moon.

What am I?
Answer:Snow

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As destructive as life,
As healing as death;
An institutioner of strife,
Just as prone to bless.
It is all that is good,
Yet with an evil trend;
As it was the beginning of things,
It can also be the end.

What am I?
Answer:Fire, but Love also seems to work (though it was not the intended

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I am the part of the bird

that is not in the sky,
Who can drown in the ocean
and yet remain dry.
A last vestige of man
that refuses to die.
In mourning I am tossed
at your feet to lie;
I begin my job early,
devouring your ankles and thighs.
I work my way up,
eating your legs to your waist.
And though around midday away I am chased,
I return quickly,
To savor the arm of my taste.
As evening falls I enter your lungs,
Spiraling down
past your mouth and your tongue.
I feast on your body, your soul, and your mind,
but as darkness falls you shall find
That away I will go, a relief for some;
At least until tomorrow morning comes.

What am I?
Answer:Your shadow

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When you look into my face,

I shall never lie;
Instead be but a window into your soul,
whether there light or shadows hide;
As in me many see their deaths
where others see their lives;
In this deny me many try,
but they simply twist their knives;
For though prejudiced to some I may seem,
THE LIE IS THEIR OWN LIVES.

What am I?
Answer: A mirror

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Two bodies have I,

though both joined in one.
The more still I stand,
the quicker I run.

What am I?
Answer: An hourglass

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You get many of me, but never enough.

After the last one, your life soon will snuff.
You may have one of me but one day a year,
When the last one is gone, your life disappears.

What am I?
Answer: A birthday.

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I
I
I
I

make you weak at the worst of all times.

keep you safe, I keep you fine.
make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold,
visit the weak, but seldom the bold.

What am I?
Answer: Fear

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Double my number, I'm less than a score,

Half of my number is less than four.
Add one to my double when bakers are near,
Days of the week are still greater, I fear.

What am I?
Answer: Six

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I weaken all men for hours each day.

I show you strange visions while you are away.
I take you by night, by day take you back,
None suffer to have me, but do from my lack.

What am I?
Answer: Sleep

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There is a house that has every window oriented to North.

There is a bear in front of this house.
What color is the bear?

Answer: The bear is white, because the only house having all its windows oriente
d to North is a house placed at South Pole. So the bear is white.

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They have not flesh, nor feathers,

Nor scales, nor bone.
Yet they have fingers and thumbs,
Of their own.

What am I?
Answer: Gloves

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It is more beautiful than the face of your love.

It is more scary than your worst fear.
Dead men eat it all the time.
If a live man eats it, he soon will die.

What am I?
Answer: Nothing

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In many hallways you would stand,

If not with this in hand.

What am I?
Answer: A Key.

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He who makes me doesn't want me,

He who buys me doesn't need me,
He who uses me doesn't care.

What am I?
Answer: A casket.

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What is faster than the speed of sound, but is still human?

Answer: The thought.

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I'm the source of all emotion, but I'm caged in a white prison.

What am I?
Answer: The heart.

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There are four brothers in this world that were all born together:
The first he runs and never wearies,
The second eats and is never full.
The third he drinks and is ever thirsty,
And the fourth sings a song that is never good.

Who are we?

Answer: Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind.

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If you have it,

You want to share it.
If you share it,
You don't have it.

What is it?
Answer: A secret

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I don't think or eat or slumber

or move around or fear thunder
just like you I look the same
but I can't harm you or be your bane

What am I?
Answer: A doll

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What has roots as nobody sees,

Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?

Answer: A mountain

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Thirty white horses on a red hill,

First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.

What are we?

Answer: Teeth

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Voiceless it cries,
Wingless it flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.

What am I?
Answer: Wind

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An eye in a blue face

Saw an eye in a green face.
"That eye is like to this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in low place,
Not in high place."

What am I?
Answer: Daisy in field of grass, big eye is sun

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It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,

Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

What am I?
Answer: Darkness

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A box without hinges, key, or lid,

Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

What am I?
Answer: Egg

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Alive without breath,

As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.

What am I?
Answer: Fish

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This thing all things devours:

Birds, beast,trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

What am I?
Answer: Time

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You feel it, but never see it and never will.

What am I?
Answer: Heart

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You must keep it after giving it.

What am I?
Answer: Your word

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As light as a feather, but you can't hold it for ten minutes.

What am I?
Answer: Your breath

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Has a mouth but does not speak, has a bed but never sleeps.

What am I?
Answer: River

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Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb!

What am I?
Answer: Water

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You break it even if you name it!

What am I?
Answer: Silence

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It passes before the sun and makes no shadow.

What am I?
Answer: Air

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You feed it, it lives, you give it something to drink, it dies.

What am I?
Answer: Fire

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A red drum which sounds

Without being touched,
And grows silent,
When it is touched.

What am I?
Answer: Heart

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Two horses, swiftest travelling,

Harnessed in a pair, and
Grazing ever in places
Distant from them.

What am I?
Answer: Eyes

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A harvest sown and reaped on the same day

In an unplowed field,

Which increases without growing,

Remains whole though it is eaten
Within and without,
Is useless and yet
The staple of nations.

What am I?
Answer: War

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If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter.

What am I?
Answer: Hope

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All about, but cannot be seen,

Can be captured, cannot be held
No throat, but can be heard.

What am I?
Answer: Wind

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I go around in circles,
But always straight ahead
Never complain,
No matter where I am led.

What am I?
Answer: Wheel

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Lighter than what

I am made of,
More of me is hidden
Than is seen.

What am I?
Answer: Ice

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If a man carried my burden,

He would break his back.
I am not rich,
But leave silver in my track.

What am I?
Answer: Snail

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My life can be measured in hours,

I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.

Answer: Candle

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Weight in my belly,
Trees on my back,
Nails in my ribs,
Feet I do lack.

What am I?
Answer: boat, but I accepted cave as an answer

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You can see nothing else

When you look in my face
I will look you in the eye
And I will never lie.

What am I?
Answer: mirror

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I am always hungry,
I must always be fed,
The finger I lick
Will soon turn red.

What am I?
Answer: fire

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Three lives have I.

Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky
Hard enough to crack rocks.

What am I?
Answer: water

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Glittering points
That downward thrust,
Sparkling spears
That never rust.

What am I?
Answer: iceicles, teeth or stalactites?

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Each morning I appear

To lie at your feet,
All day I follow
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.

What am I?
Answer: shadow

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Keys without locks

Yet I unlock the soul.

What am I?
Answer: piano,harpsichord

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Something wholly unreal, yet seems real to I

Think my friend, tell me where does it lie?

Answer: in the mind

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I am so simple,
That I can only point
Yet I guide men
All over the world.

What am I?
Answer: compass

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A beggar's brother went out to sea and drowned.

But the man who drowned had no brother.
What was the relationship between the man who drowned and the beggar?

What am I?
Answer: the beggars was his sister

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First will be last

Last will be first
and all in between will also be cursed
open the door, and the thing will be there
so be carefull and beware ! speak, frie

What am I?
Answer: unknownnd, and enter !

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Man of old, it is told

Would search until he tired,
Not for gold, ne'er be sold,
But what sought he was fire. Man today, thou mayst say,
Has quite another aim,
In places deep, he did seek,
To find me for his gain!

What am I?
Answer: knowledge? oil? diamonds?

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For our ambrosia we were blessed,

by Jupiter, with a sting of death.
Though our might, to some is jest,
we have quelled the dragon's breath.

What am I?
Answer: Bees

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Colored as a maiden tweaked,

time was naught when I began;
through the garden I was sneaked,
I alone am the fall of man.

What am I?
Answer: An Apple

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Early ages the iron boot tread,

with Europe at her command.
Through time power slipped and fled,
'til the creation of new holy land.

What am I?
Answer: Italy (Rome)

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One thin, one bold,

one sick, one cold.
The earth we span,
to prey upon man.

What am I?
Answer: The Four Horsemen of Apocolypse

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One where none should be,

or maybe where two should be,
seeking out purity,

in the kings trees.

What am I?
Answer: A Unicorn

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He
He
He
He

who
who
who
who

makes it does not keep it.

takes it does not know it.
knows it does not want it.
gathers it must destroy it.

What am I?
Answer: Counterfiet Money

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One tooth to bite,

he's the forests foe.
One tooth to fight,
as all Norse know.

What am I?
Answer: An Axe

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This creature, part man and part tree,

hates the termite as much as the flea.
His tracks do not match,
and his limbs may detach,
but he's not a strange creature to see.

What am I?

Answer: A Man With A Wooden Leg

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The part of the bird

that is not in the sky,
which can swim in the ocean
and always stay dry.

What am I?
Answer: A Shadow

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Dead and bound,

what once was free.
What made no sound,
now sings with glee.

What am I?
Answer: A Wooden, Stringed Instrument

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The root tops the trunk

on this backward thing,
that grows in the winter
and dies in the spring.

What am I?
Answer: An Icicle

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Riddle:

Touching one, yet holding two,

it is a one link chain
binding those who keep words true,
'til death rent it in twain.

What am I?
Answer: A Wedding Ring

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A house of wood in a hidden place

Built without nails or glue
High above the earthen ground
It holds pale gems of blue.

What am I?
Answer: A Robin's Nest

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Inside a great blue castle

Lives a shy young maid
She blushes in the morning
And comes not out at night.

What am I?
Answer: The sun

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I have legs but walk not

A strong back but work not
Two good arms but reach not
A seat but sit and tarry not

What am I?
Answer: A chair

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I can be touched
But I hurt those who touch me
I move swiftly through a dry forest
But die in a mountain stream
Where I pass I leave a black shroud.

What am I?
Answer: Fire

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He who makes it needs it not

He who buys it wants it not
He who uses it feels it not

What am I?
Answer: A coffin

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In marble halls as white as milk,

Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal-clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

What am I?
Answer: An egg

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'Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell,

An echo caught faintly the sound as it fell;
On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,
And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed;
'Twill be found in the sphere when 'tis riven asunder,
Be seen in the lightning and heard in the thunder.
'Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath,
Attends him at birth, and awaits him in death,
Presides o'er his happiness, honor, and health,
Is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth.
In the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care,
But is sure to be lost on the prodigal heir.
It begins every hope, every wish it must bound,
With the husbandman toils, and with monarchs is crowned.
Without it the soldier, the seamn may roam,
But woe to the wretch who expels it from home!
In the whispers of conscience its voice will be found,
Nor e'en in the whirlwind of passion be drowned.
'Twill not soften the heart; but though deaf be the ear,
It will make it acutely and instantly hear.
Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower,
Ah... breathe on it softly, - it dies in an hour.

What am I?
Answer: The letter 'H'

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The
The
The
The

beginning of eternity,
end of time and space,
beginning of every end,
end of every place.

What am I?
Answer: The letter 'E'

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Robbers came to our house

And we were all in.
The house leaped out at the windows
And we were all taken in.

What am I?
Answer: Fish in a net

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Though I dance at a ball, I am nothing at all.

What am I?
Answer: A shadow

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As I was going to St. Ives,

I met a man who had seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

Answer: One

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Look into my face and I'm everybody;

Scratch my back and I'm nobody.

What am I?
Answer: A mirror

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Goes over all the hills and hollows,

Bites hard, but never swallows.

What am I?
Answer: Frost

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I walked and walked and at last I got it;

I didn't want it, so I stopped and looked for it;
When I found it, I threw it away.

What am I?
Answer: A thorn

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Lives in winter, dies in summer,

Grows with its root upwards.

What am I?
Answer: An icicle

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A man rode to town on Friday.

He stayed there all night,
and came back on the same Friday.
How can this be?

Answer: His horse is named "Friday"

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Fatherless and Motherless, born without sin

Roared when it came into the world,
And never spoke again.

What am I?
Answer: Thunder
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