rough-hew stone or timber.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Every man had the right to rough-hew his own life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swirling Waters] Reference

"There is a hand that shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we will.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference

Truly, as the poet says, there's a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference

Indeed, character consists in little acts, well and honorably performed; daily life being the quarry from which we build it up, and rough-hew the habits which form it.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Church Cooperation in Community Life] Reference

Then a rash impulse swept me -- and praise be for such things: instinct sometimes serves us well when our plans begin to falter; and that should teach us there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them however we will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamlet 5:2] Reference

'There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will'?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference

There's a deity shapes us our ends, sir, rough-hew them, my boy, how we will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heptalogia] Reference

There's a Divinity that shapes the ends (of envelopes!) rough-hew them how we will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

"Then you don't believe there is a Destiny that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Places] Reference

Back of both men and circumstances, however, stands sovereign Providence, shaping our ends, rough-hew them how we will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference

John said to him at this point, and Mr. Jannissary murmured that there was a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foolish Lovers] Reference

But destiny that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will, had made up its mind for further revelations, and against destiny even Doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel] Reference

Indeed character consists in little acts, well and honourably performed; daily life being the quarry from which we build it up, and rough-hew the habits which form it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance] Reference

If that providence which shapes our ends will but finish those I rough-hew, I trust that the second week in October, or perhaps a few days earlier, will see us at Skibo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference

Rather, may this unified Saxondom, as the agent of that "divinity that shapes our ends rough-hew them how we will," choose the opening hours of its era for the purging from its great heart all the lingering vestiges of hatred of men, and with eyes ever on the heights above, begin the final climb of the human race toward the ideal state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist] Reference

Why, Sir, if there is a destiny that shapes the ends of individuals, rough-hew them as we will, there has been a destiny surely shaping the ends of the great British Empire by putting into the hands of this mighty power, this great agency for good, the possessions that are in every sea and in every continent of the civilized world today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire Conditions and Imperial Defence] Reference

That this German-made war presents that issue is in itself alone reason sufficient why the civilised nations should take up the gauntlet she has thrown down, why this war should be fought out to the only ending that any believer in the right of men and of nations to freedom and in that Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may, can contemplate as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Things the War Means] Reference

A divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.] Reference

There is a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will, and it's no good grumbling. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Among the Chickens] Reference

"hard utility," and that it was some æsthetic divinity that shaped their blocks, rough-hew them how they might?.    From Wordnik.com.  [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference

During the dinner, the man sitting next to me told a humorous story which hinged on the quotation, “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leader In You] Reference

I was attending a banquet one night given in Sir Ross’s honor; and during the dinner, the man sitting next to me told a humorous story which hinged on the quotation “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

All good men too will pray that that Providence which presides over the destinies of nations and shapes their ends, rough-hew them as they will, will so ordain that the friends of liberty throughout the world may not have cause to mourn over the folly and madness and wickedness of an effort by arms on this continent, to subject a whole people, united in the vindication of their rights, and resolved to die in their defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi. Called Session, January, 1861] Reference

We elaborate this point before passing to the last great campaign of the war, since, to understand Lee in those last days, it is absolutely necessary to keep in view this utter subjection of the man's heart to the sense of an overruling Providence ” that Providence which “shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life of Gen Robert E Lee]

Providence rough-hew them or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer] Reference

This does but rough-hew, and design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudibras] Reference

'Tho we will rough-hew them how we may, ".    From Wordnik.com.  [John Merrick. A Biographical Sketch] Reference

But, O wisest, highest-and-deepest-minded Shakespeare, to have remembered, as you were propounding, Hamlet-wise, one of the great unsolvable mysteries of life, the skewers that you, being an idle lad, could but rough-hew, leaving to your careful father the skill-requiring task to shape their ends!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference