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

I saw the emptiness of fame and luxury, when put in the balance against the recompense of virtue.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

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

From Civic League Cook Book by

"And as this—ah—this particular candidate was beaten by a bare majority of two or three hundred votes—" "It was me as done it!" put in the balance of power, shaking his finger at Perkins impressively.

From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by Bangs, John Kendrick

I made a stretching board from a spault I split out of a basswood log and stretched the otter skin, and put in the balance of the day in chopping wood.

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