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
To shape the ends of wood skewers, i. e., to point them, requires a degree of skill: any one can rough-hew them.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob
"There is a hand that shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we will."
From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Lee, Minnie Mary
Truly, as the poet says, there's a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.
From Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel by Kilpatrick, Florence A. (Florence Antoinette)
This does but rough-hew, and design; Leaves art to polish and refine.
From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel
