rough-hew

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It also engages the idea that some things may be hard-wired into our blood, echoing Hamlet’s phrase about how there’s a “divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2016

But "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin

You know the lines— 'There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will'?

From Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Corelli, Marie

John said to him at this point, and Mr. Jannissary murmured that there was a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may.

From The Foolish Lovers by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)

"There is a Providence that shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we will!"

From Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear by Gowanlock, Theresa