rough-hew

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And both men explained their destiny by quoting the same lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

From Time Magazine Archive

A trivial accident, you will say; yes, one of those very trivial accidents that so often affect the destinies of a lifetime, and:             “Shape our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)

"There is a Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them as we will."

From The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Day, Mary L.

"There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Hubbard, Elbert

"There's a Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we may."

From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Piozzi, Hester Lynch