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

We may surely rough-hew our materials first, and shape and place them afterwards.'

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

You know your Shakespeare, John, and he says most truly: 'There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.'

From To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Wicks, Mark

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

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