Bless you, or God bless you, is a common English expression typically addressed to a person after they sneeze. Alternative responses to sneezing adopted by English speakers are the German word gesundheit (meaning "health") and the Spanish salud. The origin of this custom and its original purpose are unknown.
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“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal—that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.”
—Bible: Hebrew 15:10, Deuteronomy.