What Am I Riddles

Question: I can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?

What am I?

Question: When warm my house expands and when cold it contracts,
I am vital to a certain type of pact.

What am I?

Question: I have curly hair I am a feline I am long I My eyes are shaped like a line. What am I?

Question: What force and strength cannot get through, I with a gentle touch can do, And many in the street would stand, Were I not a friend at hand.

Question: I wasn't born a horse,
and I never fly.
Yet sometimes I still soar,
right into the sky.
I often contain breath,
and yet I never die.
Sometimes I am torn,
but I never sigh.
Often, with ambition, I aspire,
and go till I can go no higher.
Then, like many men, so great,
I sink into a low state.
What am I?