put in the balance

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“We remove it. But what we put in the balance is what we can learn.”

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021

Add sugar to half of the cream, and put in the balance of the bean.

From Civic League Cook Book by

We set the two bear traps in as likely places as we could find for bear to travel, and put in the balance of the day traveling through the woods in search of bear signs.

From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel

For herself the property, as put in the balance beside her love, was lighter than air itself.

From Evelina's Garden by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

The blotting of the sun, the desolation of an universe is a trifle when put in the balance with an immortal spirit. 

From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles