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

He must believe, with Tennyson, in a "far off divine event, toward which the whole creation moves," or with Shakespeare when he said "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."

From Church Cooperation in Community Life by Vogt, Paul L. (Paul Leroy)

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

Sometimes a strange "Destiny shapes our ends," he remembered reading, "rough-hew them as we may."

From Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums by Overton, Mark

For, where men like Byron are concerned, it is peculiarly true that the divinity of the Muse shapes their ends, rough-hew these how they may.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred