Can you guess what each of these riddles is describing?
#41
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There is not wind enough to twirl
That one red leaf, nearest of its clan,
Which dances as often as dance it can. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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#42
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What does man love more than life?
Fear more than death or mortal strife?
What do the poor have, what the rich require,
And what contented men desire?
What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,
And all men carry to their graves? |
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#43
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Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can't relate |
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#44
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What work is it that the faster you work, the longer it is before you're done, and the slower you work, the sooner you're finished? |
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#45
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When I am filled,
I can point the way;
When I am empty,
Nothing moves me.
I have two skins,
One without and one within.
What am I? |
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#46
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As a whole, I am both safe and secure.
Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.
What am I? |
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#47
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I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see. |
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#48
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What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three in the evening? |
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#49
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What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains? |
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#50
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I have hands that wave at you,
Though I never say goodbye.
It's cool for you to be with me,
Especially when I say, "HI."
What am I? |
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