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
In other words, a man decrees his own destiny and shapes his own ends by his actions, whether Providence rough-hew them or not.
From Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer by
To shape the ends of wool-skewers, i.e., to point them, requires a degree of skill; any one can rough-hew them.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
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)
If his plans or attempts should one after the other fail, "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will"!
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George
