keep things in proportion

:  to retain in one's possession or power

:  to refrain from granting, giving, or allowing

:  to have in control

:  the means or provisions by which one is kept

:  one that keeps or protects: such as

:  fortress, castle

:  an object or entity not precisely designated or capable of being designated

:  an inanimate object distinguished from a living being

:  a separate and distinct individual quality, fact, idea, or usually entity

:  harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole :  balance, symmetry

:  proper or equal share

:  quota, percentage

:  to adjust (a part or thing) in size relative to other parts or things

:  to make the parts of harmonious or symmetrical

:  apportion, allot